Sir, – As beloved by broadcasters “Live in the studio . . .”. What’s the alternative? – Yours, etc,
GERRY McDONNELL,
Kippure Avenue,
Green Park, Dublin 12.
Sir, – Enough already. – Yours, etc,
JOHN DOYLE,
Enniskeane, Co Cork.
Sir, – Could we do away with the euphemism “Passed away” and “Passed”? I heard a person on the radio saying recently that someone had been “pronounced passed away”. If there’s a major incident involving loss of life, do we say “100 people passed away when the train/plane/cars crashed?” Dead, Died. End of. – Yours, etc,
MAIREAD MASON,
Ballymore Eustace,
Co Kildare.
Sir, – “Welcome back”, on radio or TV, when I’ve gone nowhere. – Yours, etc,
OLIVER DUFFY,
Melbourn Estate, Cork.
Sir, – “Ireland and Northern Ireland”, defying the laws of geography. – Yours, etc,
BERNARD
Mac BRÁDAIGH,
Annascaul, Tralee, Co Kerry.
Sir, – May I commend your readers on their endeavours to reduce down the use of superfluous words and banal everyday phrases. Take “reduce down”, for example. Too often we hear this grating sound-byte from politicians in austerity mode, but it is ridiculous. Who has ever heard of reducing something up? – Yours, etc,
MICHAEL DOORLEY,
Sidmonton Gardens,
Bray, Co Wicklow.