Your Letters
asks "why not replace figures with emoticons" one day after the Magazine has replaced a headline with emoticons . What else can we replace with emoticons? Perhaps links to the various sections on the news website like ;-) for the Magazine and :-( for Business.
Chris Clarke, Grenoble, France
"." Is that how she signs her cheques?
Basil Long, Nottingham
Kat Murphy (Weds Letters), I would suggest the expression for responding to a post, when even as you're writing, you suspect they just put it there to provoke the kind of fusty response you're now drafting, but you're just too pedantic to stop yourself commenting, should be known as post-imprissionism.
PS Rob from Reading: How about nominative perversity?
Ray, Turku, Finland
In the , I count 29 people. Surely with all that security, someone was given the job of checking people's names against the guest list? Weren't they?
Adam, London, UK
Re . Just for a minute I believed that Michael Martin had delighted the House of Commons with his favourite Walker's impression after the success of his new diet and time in the gym. The reality is far more mundane...
Philip, Nottingham, UK
Re "". Yes, but they don't mean to. They're doing it for themselves.
Alex Knibb, Bristol, UK