Dashes, commas, and judgmental twitchers | Brief letters
Your obituary for Harry Dean Stanton (18 September) mispunctuates the title of the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel by substituting a comma for the dash. This had a curious effect on the list of TV horse operas Stanton acted in: “Laramie, The Gun, Have Gun, Will Travel, Bonanza and Rawhide.”  Even the Oxford comma, which coincidentally played a part in Sunday’s episode of Strike, can’t come to our rescue with that one, though it could have helped with Bonanza and Rawhide.
Hugh Darwen
Warwick
Boris Johnson must know that birds do not sing in the nest (Report, 20 September). It is a place of secrecy and security. It is the immature that call out, eager to be fed. This is especially true if an over-sized cuckoo is among them, ensuring that they are ejected and crash to the ground below.
Dick Curtis
Gloucester
Now that dance and building have been confirmed as the two fundamental arts (Letters, 19 September) can we hope for a weekly G2 feature where dancing about architecture is actually a thing?
Richard Lee
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
Dirty money? Mystery over shredded €500 notes in Swiss sewers
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Perhaps it is a coincidence that after a monster fatberg is found inside a London sewer (How to win the battle against ‘sanitary’ waste, Letters, 19 September), the Swiss have encountered a similar problem (Cash in the pan: wads of €500 notes block Swiss sewer pipes, 19 September).
Richard Hollis
St Albans,Hertfordshire
The world of ornithology describes meeting attendees (Letters, 19 September). How can it be that your observant writers missed the judgmental twitcher in the corner?
Sally Ward
Boston Spa, West Yorkshire
Andrea Hosker’s letter (18 September) did cause me to search the recycling bin, as I  had missed Nancy Banks Smith’s A Month in Ambridge. I haven’t laughed so much for ages. She and John Crace are the ideal antidotes to all the worrying news we are having to contend with at the moment.
Gill Empson
Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire
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