From DAVID NEVILLE
So Ariadne (28 March) cannot understand how the advertisement for the
Philips Pocket Memo could have been written. It said ‘In the time it took
Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us of a dozen more.’
The explanation is simple. The author (and presumably the copy checkers)
are natives of the northeast of England. We Geordies use ‘of’ instead of
‘have’ all the time. Ariadne should of investigated further.
David Neville Cramlington, Northumberland
