Let’s get Chris O’Shea’s Centrica pay correct (Boss of British Gas owner says it is ‘impossible to justify’ his £4.5m pay, 19 January). His actual salary is stated to be £790,000. His “bonus” is £3.7m – the bonus of contention, you might say. I would hope that, with an expected change of government, all obscene bonuses such as this would invite an appropriately obscene level of taxation.
Les Forester
Halifax, West Yorkshire
• So Tim Dowling doesn’t think alphabetising your bookshelves cuts the mustard (Shelf-absorbed: eight ways to arrange your bookshelves – and what they say about you, 17 January). Not sure what he would make of my sections on history, arranged in countries (alphabetical in each section). I can find whatever I want when I need a reference, or when world events mean I need to reread, or I simply want to seek out an old friend.
Ruth Windle
Frome, Somerset
• Since we are debating the correct pronunciation of scone (To rhyme with ‘cone’ or ‘gone’? Countdown’s Susie Dent reveals most common question, 18 January), I think it is time to clarify how we should pronounce scallop. Those who originate from Scotland, like me, pronounce it to rhyme with gallop whereas many in the south of England, and TV chefs, tend to prefer dollop.
Mike Pender
Cardiff
• As a veteran of two successful transurethral resection of the prostate (Turp) operations, I commend King Charles for being open about his condition in the interests of promoting men’s health (King Charles to be treated in hospital for enlarged prostate, 17 January). I wish him well. May we look forward to seeing the royal warrant insignia on packs of Viagra?
Peter Barnes
Milton Keynes
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