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EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Richard Ingrams wrote to Foot warning of Monica's promiscuity, and getting another student Margaret Jay, daughter of Labour PM Jim Callaghan to co-sign it.
Patrick Hanks, who has died aged 83, was a lexicographer, corpus linguist and onomastician, one who studies names; he edited the Collins English Dictionary (1979), shed light on the meaning of surnames on both sides of the Atlantic, and unearthed the history of rude words.
It was 72 years ago, on February 6 1952, when the nation heard that George VI had died at Sandringham.
The broadcaster recalls a true original who immersed himself in the roles of Dame Edna and Sir Les, and was a complicated mixture of vaudeville character and private intellectual
The following is from my book ms: They're so Smart cause we're so Stupid: A Medievalist's Guide to the 21st Century. It is part of a chapter on the Jenin "Massacre" and concerns the self-justification