Your Letters
15:57 UK time, Monday, 12 March 2007
I'm sure that there are slang words which are very rude in the South East but which are meaningless elsewhere. I'm willing to bet that you never use them online for fear of offending swathes of readers. Imagine my delight (and the horror of others) to see a headline - on the front page, no less - titled about new acronyms for the 21st Century. I shall not give the definition here, but in Scotland, "fud" is a very rude word indeed.
David, Ayr
Re: the very EASY . Getting the answer of 506 is simple. All you do if convert all the number to pence (eg £1.47 becomes 147p), add them all together to make 438p, and then the obvious bit, turn them into Ghana pence using the exchange rate as it was in August 1972. How did nobody spot that?
Johnny Lyttle, Leeds, UK
I was surprised that The Mystery of Edwin Drood wasn't among the . Even Charles Dickens couldn't be bothered to finish that and he wrote it.
MJ, Ingatestone
The only book I ever gave up reading was War and Peace. Happily, thanks to your recent article which pitted a , I don't need to bother.
Jacob, London
Re - can we have a little more background on this fascinating story, please? How did he get himself into such a pickle?
Ian, Marseille, France
"[S]hould robots be allowed to marry humans? Should they be allowed to own property? These questions might sound far-fetched, but debates over animal rights would have seemed equally far-fetched to many people just a few decades ago" (). I can't think off the top of my head of any animals that own property, and although there have been cases of humans marrying animals, I think even animal rights activists might have a few issues with this.
Martin, Bristol
Hang on, the Telegraph wearing blue? Who would have thought it?
Andrew Lawrence, Sheffield, UK
On , did anyone else try and match up them to characters in Lost?
Chris, London
Surely the caption for this week should have been: "±«Óãtv publishes exclusive photo of the Caption Competition technical advisory board."
Christian Cook, Epsom, UK
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