Madam, - The Irish really do give the English language a wonderful workout. Recently, I was introduced to the Irish expression "dig out", which I presumed was the present tense form of "dug out".
Not so. I learned from a Dublin taxi-driver last weekend that those inhabiting the Irish soccer team's dugout might need a dig out before the fans were dug out of them. - Yours, etc,
WOJCIECH BLASKA, Lombard Street West, Dublin 8.