Your Letters
15:26 UK time, Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Does anyone else see the delicious irony in the name of the protest group being called Plane Stupid?
James, Woodford, UK
Re: the debate about chance and probability, actually John, there is a one in two chance that there's a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. The OED describes chance (among other definitions) as "noun: a possibility of something happening". As there are three possibilities and only one possible outcome, I stick by my assertion that there is a one in three chance of house prices rising, falling or staying the same. As for the probability, I'll leave that to the analysts.
Cameron Smith, Bath, UK
Is anyone else finding it hard to distinguish between Borat and when reading the papers at speed in the morning?
Paul O'Neill, London
To Jel of Swansea re: "Black Country logic" - neither Birmingham nor Hanley, in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, are in the Black Country. That's like saying Swansea's in the Valleys. Hanley is some 30 miles North of the Black Country and is, in fact, the Capital of The Potteries.
Jake Perks, Telford, Shropshire (not in the Black Country)
Blimey, weren't we a grumpy bunch in the letters on Monday?
Grace, London
I can only assume you included Reginald's letter yesterday to sit back and watch with amusement as a string of irritated 'scotch' (!!) object to his little Englishness. The man on A Question of Sport is Scots, or Scottish, and his accent is perfectly understandable, thank you. By all means dislike the man, but don't object to watching it because you can't understand him.
K, Edinburgh
I liked this headline: ? Doubts over new electronic voting dog US mid-term polls.
An electronic voting dog? They're miles ahead of us in the US!
David, Ayr, Scotland
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