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Letter: Letters: Sighantitic Inglish

Published 7 May 1994

From TONY CRISP

In ‘Bacteria turn straw into liquid gold’ (Technology, 2 April) Andy
Coghlan refers to ‘a genetically engineered bacteria’ and goes on, in ‘Fungi
makes (sic) a meal of toxic waste’ to describe Phanerochaete chrysosporium
as ‘the principle fungus used by Biotal’. I find these mistakes so irritating
I would like to exile Coghlan to a remote loci, possibly an arctic peninsular,
or bury him under a thick strata.

Tony Crisp Shrewsbury

Issue no. 1924 published 7 May 1994

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