Your Letters
11:59 UK time, Monday, 4 May 2009
I am not happy with the pronunciation of LAMentable. I believe that correctly it has the emphasis on the first syllable. However, by the time the population has heard it incorrectly enough times as they have over the last few days, it will never be pronounced correctly again. The same happened to harrass.
Susie, Oxford
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Oh, so close.
Lee, Birmingham
You can prove anything with the right statistics. ("Ten things" No 7) "An outbreak of swine flu in 1976 killed one person but a vaccine for it killed 25". So? The death rates were in fact one in 200 flu sufferers, whilst the vaccination was fatal in 25 cases out of 40 million, which is one in 1.6 million). As one in 200 who caught the flu died, that vaccine must have saved thousands of lives, even if it didn't help 25 of them.
Tim, London
Here's a thought to ponder... More people were injured as a direct result of tea cosies in 2000 (two) than there were fatalities in the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak (one). (Sources: Rospa + ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳).
Mike Harper, Devon, UK
Re: the headline on - I would have thought that missing an own goal was a good thing.
Colin Edwards, Exeter, UK
If the aeroplane flew over New York for a photo op, shouldn't there be a better picture you can use to illustrate it in your ""?
Nick, London
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