Sir, – Mattie Lennon's query as to whether it's two mice or a pair of mouses he has for his PC and laptop (September 8th) brings to mind the Kerry tailor long ago who faced a similar predicament. He needed two new smoothing irons from Dublin. The type used by tailors was called a tailor's goose, but should the plural be geese or gooses? To avoid being seen as an ignoramus by someone in Dublin, he wrote a letter ordering one tailor's goose but added in a postscript: since you're sending one, you might as well send me another one too. – Yours, etc,
PATRICK O’DONOGHUE,
Maynooth,
Co Kildare.
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Sir, – Mattie Lennon’s inquiry about his computer mice is merely a peripheral question.– Yours, etc,
MICHAEL O’LEARY,
Monkstown,
Co Dublin.