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Never mind the wallaby being confused - since when was a marsupial a bird of prey?
Dan, Cambridge
This example of nominative determinism has made me hungry.
Phil, Guisborough
This 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 Brown bares all as Calendar Girl , 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 under the bowler hat?
Rob Falconer, Llandough, Wales
Sometimes the modern trend to use texttalk spellings creates amusing malapropisms. Take Shona Hughes, 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 they ran out of drinks... anyone got a more specific term for this kind of double-kick?
Jel, Swansea