Must try harder

Madam, - Do the readers of your newspaper have nothing better to do with their time? Day in, day out, I read letters about asinine subjects including the reluctance of public figures to use the word "yes" instead of "absolutely", how people pronounce the letter "r" and the fact that two half-pints of Guinness cost more than one whole pint of Guinness.

I can only conclude that these readers have very little to worry about. - Yours, etc.,

VALERIE HARVEY,

Rathdown Crescent,

Dublin 6W.