Your Letters
15:59 UK time, Monday, 17 January 2011
Is this picture really "an image of coping"? Looks a bit deranged to me.
Sarah, Nantwich
"Mothers Admit to Parenting Lies": I just opened this article to be greeted with a child's painting of a face along with the seemingly unrelated caption "Mothers are under pressure to keep up an image of coping, says the survey". Is this actually a child's drawing, a photo of a harried mother trying to cope or an artist's impression of the parental "image of coping" while simultaneously breaking down? I found this most intriging.
Martin, Bristol, UK
Oh to be in Southampton now, and to finally get a chance to use one of my favourite Eddie Izzard quotes: "Whose pig is this?"
Martin, Bristol, UK
Re: 10 things: "Aristotle was known as the human Wikipedia." I knew the greeks had soothsayers, I'd just never realised they were that good.
Ian, Bristol
No, Artistotle certainly was not known as the human wikipedia (10 things). He might have been nicknamed that more recently, but I doubt he'd have answered to it.
Katy, Cambridge
CORRECTION: Patrick, Adam (Friday's Letters), it's not an abbreviation either. An abbreviation is where a word is shortened (e.g., co., ltd., etc.). DRA is an example of an initialism. I'll get my fine-toothed comb.
P. Dant, Marlow, UK
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