15 OCTOBER 1994, page 27

Sir: I Am Not A Person To Write Letters To

journals. I cringed, but passed over Dot Wordsworth's solecisms on 'like' in your issue of 3 September (Mind your lan- guage). The matter was adequately settled by Bill Todd's......

A Brave Man

Sir: Michael Moran (Ties, damn lies and leprechauns', 17 September) fails suffi- ciently to emphasise the most striking fea- ture of Irish-American activism: the sheer,......

Sir: Some Months Ago, You Published A Splendid Piece Of

scientific popularisation by Richard Dawkins (`The telephone exchange of life', 11 June), which I thoroughly enjoyed. I wish I could say the same about Warwick Collins's......

War Of The Words

Sir: I don't know whether English is Mr George Mandel's first language, but this is what he wrote last week in a letter complain- ing about me: 'They is always followed by a......

Letters Switching Off

Sir: As a research scientist in the field of arti- ficial intelligence for the past 25 years, I would like to reassure your contributor, War- wick Collins, that his fears are......