Your Letters
17:51 UK time, Thursday, 9 July 2009
Re , Richard Taylor assures us that "toilet waste is rarely to blame". But it is sometimes? Even with such an outside chance, I wouldn't be posing, ice-block in hand, for a picture.
Kat Gregg (nee Murphy), Coventry
Help! Re -oor as in poor not pour (How to Say). Could someone explain how to pronounce the two words differently. I have been sitting at my desk repeating them over and over again, and even though I speak a "tonal" language I am struggling to hear the difference.
Abby, London
I always find the pronunciation guides interesting but I was a bit surprised by the latest instalment which tells us that for Urumqi we should be saying oor-uum-TCHEE (-oor as in poor not pour). To think, all these years I've been saying it as "paw". How embarrassing.
Matt Hardcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
L'Aquila doesn't sound like it's in China.
Lee, Birmingham
I have just achieved 2 out of 7 on your . Under current standards that equates to at least a B. I look forward to receiving my certificate.
Rockingham, London
When are you going to get back to GCSE subjects I actually know something about, like science or - um - break time? My colleague is beating me 4-3 on the first seven quizzes and it's making me doubt myself.
Stuart Taylor, Bromley, Kent
"Michael Jackson patented one item - the special shoes he used in the stage version of Smooth Criminal" (10 things). I don't suppose they are a particular kind of leather with a high shiny gloss - you know?
Maggie, south London
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