Your Letters
15:07 UK time, Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Having never met before, Claire and Jo (Tuesday's Letters) may need help to ensure that their new found grammatical chum is the definite article. Perhaps I could help. I'm singular, have a passive voice and people say I am a non-restrictive modifier which I think is a compliment.
Mark, Reading
To Jo of London and Claire of Oxford: Do you know what Oedipus Rex's big problem was? He conjugated when he should have declined.
Holly, Michigan, USA
If Claire from Oxford and Jo from London actually did meet up, would that be dative ?
Paul Greggor, London
Re: ? Might I suggest that the bag of milk isn't really there to "replace the traditional doorstep pint" in terms of being kinder to the environment? Surely the "traditional doorstep pint" is delivered in a reusable (even better than recyclable) bottle using a fairly environmentally friendly method of transportation. Can the, presumably, plastic bag, sheet of instructions and disposal of "container jug" (when a new and better model comes along) be all that better for the environment than other efforts?
Kevin, Derby
Maybe if K, Edinburgh (Tuesday's Letters) wasn't so desperate to spot mythical ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ London bias he'd have had time to read Tuesday's Quote of the Day properly. If so, he'd have seen that it was the Isle of Lewis (correctly) described as being in the Outer Hebrides, not Aberdeen.
M Hunter, Warrington
The notion that P Diddy, or any of his incarnations, is the most important man in the world of rap (Wednesday's Quote of the Day) is laughable at best. KRS-ONE, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Fab 5 Freddy and whole horde of others have been responsible for more inspiration, innovation, development, promotion and mainstreamning that he has. and I suspect ever will. All P Diddy has done, in the grand scheme of things, is over-market, genericise and commodify rap to make it barely distinguishable from pop. Hardly laudable actions deserving of celebration.
Andrew Rodgers, Peterborough, UK
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