Your Letters
15:22 UK time, Wednesday, 1 November 2006
A whole Paper Monitor entry dedicated to the subject of tights. Can we now, at last, lay to rest the "mystery" of MM's gender?
JFK, UK
Footless tights - further guidance is needed. Do you wear them with socks and sandals? Men throughout the nation have a right to know.
Kip, Norwich UK
Does any one know - does the lack of foot in a pair of tights change their efficacy as a fan belt substitute?
Andy, London
Classic Daily Mail stuff. Front page story complaining of "snoopers" finding out people's salaries. Inside story reporting salary of £91,000 paid to Birmingham council employee.
Martin Jordan, Ingatestone
You ask on the front page if there will be ? The answer - without even necessarily mentioning how the Tardis is dimensionally transcendental - is quite clearly yes. Even from the outside it is bigger than three of them.
Basil Long, Newark Notts
Re: . I am surprised that the answer for the question seems so low for the country that is correct. On a typical Friday night in any city half the females have more than that amount on at one outing.
Tim McMahon, Pennar, Wales
With regards Morgan Sexton's Tuesday letter I have a lot of similar definitions from "Professor Branestawm's Dictionary", first published 1973, such as "hirsute" - lady's costume; and "allocate" - a greeting for Catherine. Perhaps other readers have older examples?
Ed Loach, Clacton-on-Sea, UK
James of Stockport and others should be grateful for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ pronunciation efforts. The presenter of the six o'clock news here is forever making embarrassing mistakes. The other day, for a story on Pune in India, she happily pronounced it all the way through to rhyme with "tune."
Becca, Auckland, NZ
MM note: According to the pronunciation guide, it is more like poo-na.
The latest research tells us that people who and sad feel more energetic in the morning. Hardly surprising. Presumably they get a better night's sleep than those who go to bed not feeling lonely, who no doubt have better things to do than sleep.
Adam, London, UK
What’s the point of ? Either they are fish cakes or they are not.
Ian, Cambridge
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