Your Letters
16:46 UK time, Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Has Sarah Brown never learnt basic manners - that you do not refuse food served to you as a guest? () And why is the tax-payer footing the bill for wives to go on these trips anyway?
Ann Pangbourne, West Hill, Devon, UK
Crunch Creep has opened yet another can of worms with the assertion that the traditional fish in fish and chips is cod. Not in Yorkshire it isn't, we'll stick with haddock thanks very much. Skin off, fried in dripping if it's all the same to you.
Timothy, Leeds
Re : "Three is the first and earliest point at which a possible list of similar words can become unequivocal." Shouldn't that be initial, first, and earliest?
Kathryn, London
What will be my pension in 2040?
Richard Kolk, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Re Web Monitor and Quote of the Day, the idea that swearing shows a limited vocabulary is clearly nonsense. Someone who uses, for example, the f-word has a vocabulary one bigger than they would if they didn't use it.
Phil, Guisborough
Philip from Rio de Janeiro (Monday's letters): I don't know how much money it costs to get a mullet haircut. But far more importantly, it will cost you your street cred for many years to come.
Adam, London, UK
Judging by the number of people sporting a mullet on my neighbourhood, I'd say they're free.
Flavia, Dublin
I accidentally got a mullet the other day, after going to the hairdresser's a little drunk.
It cost me £27, but that was half price in a very posh one (but they did give me more wine, I think this was a diversion technique while they cut said mullet).
Megan Mayhew, London
Dear Philip from Rio, my boyfriend recently paid £7.50 for a mullet, which included a free beer and several "are you sures?" from the hairdresser. However he recouped the cost as work colleagues bet him £50 that he wouldn't do it. I hope this helps.
Emily, Bristol
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