Your Letters

15:53 UK time, Monday, 8 January 2007

If there were to be a jury formed for an inquest into Diana's death, I suspect the first question asked of each potential juror, to determine his or her suitablility, will be "are you a Daily Express reader?"
Jennifer S, USA

Re. Sorry To Say. Is this just another this-country's-going-to-the-dogs story? Standard January stuff I suppose.
But if we've resorted to stories about us saying sorry too much, then things can't be that bad, surely?

Chris, Sheffield

The article about the word sorry illustrates the "nervous middle-class caricature in old sitcoms" with a photo of Terry and June. Am I taking things too literally in thinking that a more appropriate image would have been Ronnie Corbett in Sorry?
MJ Simpson, Leicester, UK

I couldn't help but notice the apparent extraordinary shape of buses in Brighton. The burning question is, of course, does it take more or less Brighton double-decker buses to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool?
Elaine O'Neill, Englefield Green, Surrey

Reading that Americans have chosen plutoed as the word of the year, I naturally assumed this was something to do with the neuronally challenged Disney cartoon dog. How refreshing that instead, there is a scientific basis for the choice.
Steve, London

Ann Hathaway is a mafia wife!?
That certainly makes me look at Will Shakespeare in a different light... the Godfather of C-Rhyme?
Andrew Nicholson, Milton Keynes

I've answered a Mastermind question correctly! Amazing! That's the first time ever I think! Thanks DMQ!
Tasha