Your Letters - Special Edition
16:13 UK time, Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Monitor note: Just the one letter today. But what a letter...
In honour of the Olympics, I thought it would be nice to have our very own Magazine Monitor Games. I have completed an arduous and often soul-destroying adventure through the Monitor archive and can inform you that the following people are our first medal winners (apologies for any inaccuracies, as it took a long time and I'm woefully human):
Most Published Letters:
GOLD:
Adam, London, UK - 72
SILVER:
Basil Long, Leicester (Newark), Notts - 43
BRONZES:
Robin, Edinburgh (Glasgow) - 29
Ed, Clacton, UK - 29
MJ Simpson, Leicester, UK - 28
Kip, Norwich, UK - 28
Christian Cook, Epsom - 27
Stig, London, UK - 27
Dylan, Reading, UK - 27
Rob Falconer, Llandough, Wales - 26
Sue, London, UK - 26
Stuart, Croydon - 26
For the record, some other factoids:
Men published: 66%
Women published: 34%
Top Towns (number of posters by population):
Cambridge: Astonishingly it appears one in every 2,358 people in Cambridge has had a letter published on the Monitor.
Oxford: 1/4809
Bath: 1/6667
Top Home Nation:
England: 1/38,024
Scotland: 1/44,111
Wales: 1/60,092
N Ireland: 1/72567
Top Nation (outside the UK):
USA
Top Non-English Speaking Nation (Scotland not included):
Germany
And just for fun (they do have beach volleyball in the Olympics after all):
Top Man's Name:
David/Dave
Top Woman's Name:
Sarah
There are of course many other events, but should this get published (and that would put me on one - only 71 to go) I would like to see what the rest of you can come up with.
James G, London
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