Your Letters
Re Paper Monitor: Shouldn't it be "Go *and* compare"? "Go compare" just sounds very American to me, a bit like the indescribably ghastly "Go figure"... (shudder)
S Pedant, London
In reference to this article, could we have "Black boxes aren't actually black" as one of the 10 weekly things, given the accompanying illustration please?
Joseph, London
Re Paper Monitor: Things we didn't know last week - rich men marry pretty women and therefore have pretty daughters.
Lucy Jones, Northwich
Ross (Monday's Letters): An older plane will (generally) have a much higher number of flight cycles (take offs and landings), where as a new plane will (generally) have less. They are inspecting all planes with a comparable number of flight cycles.
Eric, Bristol
After reading and I am changing my name.
Elizabeth Darcy (was John Airey), Peterborough, UK
And the prizes for Most Inaccurate Photo Caption and Most Pointless Photo go to this article.
James, Leicester