I've each sympathy with Kévins of France who're fed up with their identify being topic to mockery, having myself sustained six many years of rudeness (We have to discuss Kévin: French namesakes battle nationwide mockery, 5 August). Folks suppose it’s acceptable to toss variations of my identify at me, with out stopping to think about that I didn’t select my identify and the way impolite they're being. My husband and I did, nonetheless, select a particular identify for our son: Amadeus. Luckily, he loves it.
Sharman Finlay
Portrush, County Antrim
Over the 20 years that I taught at Open College summer season faculties on the College of Sussex campus, I developed a equipment to see me via per week in a corridor of residence. Together with a Swiss Military knife and earplugs was a small bottle of malt vinegar with which to descale the bathe head within the communal lavatory (Letters, 7 August).
Peter Barnes
Milton Keynes
Rishi Sunak vows to finish low-earning levels in a shake-up of post-16 schooling (Report, 7 August). So how will we handle with out lecturers, nurses, social employees, authorized support barristers, charity employees and the remainder? Bankers don’t produce something, they simply cream off the highest of low-paid individuals’s efforts.
Martin Cooper
Bromley, London
I don’t know the way simple it was to ebook a rail ticket from Inverkeithing to Bangkok (Letters, 5 August), however the final time I attempted to ebook a rail-and-sail ticket from Inverkeithing to the Isle of Man, the clerk within the ticket workplace declined to take action as it will take him “far too lengthy”.
David Carter
Dunfermline, Fife
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