Your Letters
15:37 UK time, Wednesday, 23 May 2007
I spied the headline , and looked forward to a piece on obesity. I was sadly disappointed.
Ralph, Cumbria
According to , "gossip is not confined to tittle-tattle about acquaintances' personal lives". If you say so, professor, but satisfy my curiosity: if this was the definition of gossip, as both www.dictionary.com and I believe, what percentage of their time do men and women spend on it?
Ken Donald, Chelmsford
I enjoyed Andrew Marr's programme on the but was curious that throughout he pronounced the surname of planet-brained economist John Maynard Keynes as "canes" - or indeed to rhyme with "brains". Have I been pronouncing the name of my adopted hometown wrong?
Maisy, Milton Keynes
Could we know the source of the Greatest Belgian poll (Tuesday's DMQ)? It wouldn't have consisted of only asking Belgian nuns would it?
Simon Rooke, Nottingham
Re great Belgians - the outright winner would have been chocolate if it had been an option.
Tim McMahon, Pennar/Wales
So you can't trust all that's published in the newspapers; there goes my innocence. Next you'll be telling us the Tooth Fairly doesn't exist.
Richard D, Faversham
Regarding the Me and my font discussions (Tuesday letters) - technically, font should be spelled "fount", so maybe it's more a case of "My font and u"?
HS, Cambridge
To Darren: The climber phoning from the top of Everest was on O2, of course (Tuesday letters).
Jel, Swansea
Pedantry alert re Cutty Sark "facts" - none of the cited explanations of how the ship came by its name are incompatible (Tuesday letters). The Witch in Tam O'Shanter is called "Cutty Sark" by Tam because she is wearing a short shift dress/skirt. So the Mail, the FT, the Telegraph and the Times are all in fact correct on that point. Ditto the point re number of visitors - "more than 16m" is obviously also "more than 15m".
Annya
What's happened to Clive James' column, ?
Julie, Crystal Lake, Illinois
The Monitor: currently has custody.
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