Your Letters

17:27 UK time, Tuesday, 9 June 2009

Monday's kind, fraternal Paper Monitor may have been sensitive to those who had not yet watched the final of The Apprentice, but it failed to pass on the advice to teenage upstart Web Monitor, who had no such qualms. I blame the parents.
Ruaraidh Gillies, Wirral, UK

Chris, Paris (Your Letters, Monday). No. As well as Norway and Sweden fjords also exist in Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska and other places.
HannaH, UK

Re Monday's Quote of the Day - cultural differences. Punning is held in far higher regard in France than in the UK, and is looked upon as high comedy. To make a pun in a foreign language, as here, would be seen in France as the epitome of wit. The French, on the other hand, would be baffled by what was so funny in a lot of what the British regard as hilarious.
Marc Laforge, St Heliers - between the two

Re Quote of the Day: it sounds amusing, but that joke could get old very quickly if Obama decides to visit Cannes next.
Edward Green, London, UK

Just what UKIP were looking for on election day, a hanging Chad
Jel, Swansea

Re Neil Armstrong's first words on the Moon (Your Letters, Monday), surely this is the ultimate in pedantry? We send three men 380,000km (equivalent to 7.6 million Olympic size swimming pools) to another world, and people are more concerned about the grammar of the first words spoken there. There should be some kind of term for pedantry which completely ignores heroic success to focus on insignificant details.
Tom, Maidstone, UK

Is it possible that the Kashmir Deer is rare because it has a predilection for gathering on roads?
Noel, Holt, Norfolk

With reference to this, Monitor presumes...
Do what?
Stuart , Croydon

M: Folks, Monitor just wants to issue thanks those who have taken to HTML formatting their links, following this post. It's much appreciated.