Your Letters
17:13 UK time, Thursday, 20 October 2011
Nominative determinism watch: I note with interest that Dan Snow (@thehistoryguy) is doing a series of tweets about #aptronyms. Have you told him you got there first?
Matt, Surrey, UK
You devote space to the "news" that George Clooney will not run for office. Any other breaking news in the same vein to report on Britain's premier news website? Perhaps that David Cameron is not going to open a donkey sanctuary in Budleigh Salterton? Possibly the "news" that actor Robert Lindsay won't be on board the next Russian space flight? This new approach to news has such possibilities: after all, for everyone in the world there are so many more things to report they are NOT going to do.
Mark, Reading, UK
"They just seem to have screwed it up". Well, quite!
Basil Long, Nottingham
The choice of the Sir Jack Hayward correction in the Guardian is the more amusing but the best/worst has to be the attribution to Patti Boulaye, the singer/actress and Conservative party member, the quote that she supported apartheid when she actually said "the party", ie the Tories. It cost the Guardian £15,000 in damages - quite a lot of tea.
Andrew Guest, London
For the first time ever, I got 7/7 on one of your quizzes. As it was about CVs, should I immediately start looking for another job?
Rob Falconer, Llandough, Wales
I must be getting dyslexic in my old age... I clicked on the "Steps and Stones" link fully expecting to see an article about two rag-and-bone men named Harold and Albert...
Rob, London, UK
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