Your Letters
16:44 UK time, Wednesday, 16 May 2012
I don't know about anybody else, but when I am crossing the road, because I am looking at my destination - the other side of the road - I automatically read the "look left/right" on that side of the road without even considering that it is upside down; thereby confusing myself as to which direction to actually look.
Basil Long, Nottingham
Here's my guess for this.
Rusty, Montreal, Quebec
Ah, Richard (Tuesday's letters), I don't know John Rentoul to ask him. With luck, he's a fan of the Magazine and will let us know. However, Seamus Heaney himself it is who refers to this use of the particle "so" as "Hiberno-English Scullionspeak". So there.
Rik Alewijnse, Feering, UK
Regarding the halfpenny sweets (Tuesday letters), I remember after decimalisation, our local sweet shop sold 2 halfpenny (1/2d) sweets for the new 1/2p!
Gail, Reigate
A couple in Somerset have tried to get a local lay-by closed because motorists tend to use it as a "comfort stop". Can you blame them when lay-bys often have a huge blue sign marked "P"?
Rob Falconer, Llandough, Wales
"Studying how snakes got legless". They could have asked my friend - she uses white wine!
JennyT, NY Brit decamped to New Jersey
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