Your Letters

16:16 UK time, Monday, 8 March 2010

Re the Monty look-alike in the mini-quiz: Does this mean Meyrick Clifton James can be prosecuted for wearing military medals he did not earn?
Sven Taylor, Basel, Switzerland

Public v private jobs was a missed opportunity. Most people in the private sector do not have a pension comparable to the public sector. Yet your comparison suggests otherwise. Also, government statistics show that, in a like for like job, public sector pay matches or is higher than private.
Ben Tillson, London, UK

Would the picture accompanying TV women 'outnumbered two to one' by men have carried more impact if it had have been of two men and a woman?
Dave Godfrey, Swindon, UK

Re Probe may have found cosmic dust: I could have told them ages ago where it is, if I'd known they were looking for it. It's under my bed.
Diane, Sutton

How can the Magazine host the Go Figure column, and still post a meaningless statement like "The average railway carriage is home to up to 1,000 cockroaches, 200 bed bugs and 200 fleas" (10 things)?
Michael, Edinburgh, UK

I develop software, and one of my product's features is a "To-do list" (re Friday letters). It's full of "To-do items", but the tab is marked "To do". That's because "To-do" is, in the first two cases, an adjective, but it isn't in the third case. "Todo" is an odd contraction, which many people would pronounce to rhyme with "Dodo", because it's not in common usage in English, and "Dodo" (or maybe "Frodo") are probably most common words in English which end in "-odo". I should get out more, perhaps, but it's chilly, and someone's nabbed my coat. Can't think who.
HS, Cambridge

Presumably, completion of the Todo list is signalled by Tada!
Mark, Bridge

I think Dan in Friday's letters meant nocando.
Phil, Guisborough