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15:12 UK time, Tuesday, 23 February 2010
I am a little confused. The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ reports the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee says the that uses highly diluted substances. This is, apparently, a waste of time and money. Yet, the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ also reports that doctors in Cambridge believe they may soon have a by giving sufferers tiny (rather than "highly diluted" then?) amounts to build up tolerance. Who is right then?
J Paul Murdock, Wall Heath, West Midlands, UK
Further to you may be interested to know bus conductors can be arrested for being drunk in charge of a moving vehicle.
And I'm a pharmacist and we can be charged with being drunk in charge of a pharmacy.
Dave Moore, Par, Cornwall
sounds like some kind of controversial wrestling move.
Ben, Bournemouth
of the week?
Rik Alewijnse, Feering, UK
If ever there was a man who's obviously had a recent (and damaging) experience with a poorly translated set of instructions for building his new wardrobe, Robin Bennet (Monday letters) is he.
Jim O'Connor, Winchester
Robin (Monday letters), may I suggest you also try to set up an English Academy to protect British-English? You could perhaps model it on the Academie Francaise, which has provided us with such wonderfully inept words for modern equipment such as magnetoscope (video recorder) and ordinateur (computer), in its ceaseless, but ultimately futile encroachment of English, of whatever form.
Martin Hollywood, Luxembourg
Sarah (Monday letters), that depends on Colin Firth's e-mail software. In some, such as the Mac version of Eudora, unsent e-mails are stored in the outbox.
Colin Edwards, Exeter, UK
Dear Sarah, I *do* mean to be a pedant; if Colin Firth had pressed "Send" while he was not connected to the internet, his message would have been placed into his outbox to be sent when he next clicked "Send and receive". I'll get my 01100011 01101111 01100001 01110100.
HS, Cambridge
Laurie (Mondays letters), I completely agree with your pedantic pointing out, and have also noticed more obvious and widely known facts creeping in over the past year. Following a quick trawl back over the past few months, I find I didn't know only about nine out of the 10 things on average. For accuracy purposes then, I suggest this feature is renamed "On average slightly under 10 things we didn't know this time last week". A bit of a mouthful perhaps, but far better to be clear and accurate.
Jimmy, Dorking, UK
Aaagh, Paper Monitor is taken! Woe unto and much gnashing of teeth from many singletons of ambiguous gender.
Bas, London
I'm Paper Monitor's other half!
Phil, Oxford
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