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Never mind the being confused - since when was a marsupial a bird of prey?
Dan, Cambridge
example of nominative determinism has made me hungry.
Phil, Guisborough
awkward comment, "which can make the viewing experience less satisfactory", was in your article about BT throttling broadband speed. "The viewing experience"? How about just "viewing"?
Almost as bad as "at this present moment in time" instead of "now".
Clive DuPort
When I saw , I thought our PM (Prime Minister not Paper Monitor) might be moonlighting.
James, England
Can someone there please put me out of my misery? Is that Alfred Hitchcock ?
Rob Falconer, Llandough, Wales
Sometimes the modern trend to use texttalk spellings creates amusing malapropisms. Take , Lucozade's running brand manager for the Edinburgh Marathon. "Until this year, runners have used Lucozade pouches, but we have decided to faze them out for both functional and environmental reasons," quoth she.
OK until ... anyone got a more specific term for this kind of double-kick?
Jel, Swansea