From ALLAN JONES
And so to linguistic matters. The splendid Ariadne speaks of ‘waiting
in line’ at the supermarket (1 September). Henceforth, she should queue,
and leave ‘waiting in line’ to the Americans. In the same issue, the equally
splended Feedback refers to the royal ‘we’ as a second-person plural pronoun.
It’s first.
Allan Jones Newport Pagnell Buckinghamshire
