Madam, - I write to complain about the use of the strictly American expression "tanked" in Conor O'Clery's column last Saturday.
I presume he means that Harken Energy crashed or folded in 1990. The only use I know for that expression here is to describe a fellow who has had one over the eight!
Oh, it's just a niggle but you are a quality newspaper and the only one I have bought over the past 40 years, so let's not fall into using extraterritorial expressions we might have to puzzle out.
The new format of the paper is just fine. - Yours, etc.,
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COLUM P. CLARKE,
Kilmacanogue,
Co Wicklow.