Do dendrologists ever get a hangover? `Long John Silver, not John "Long" Silver; Sugar Ray Robinson, not Ray "Sugar" Robinson. Why is this?'

The Independent - London | November 17, 1999| | Copyright

OUR LINGUISTICS expert Dr Wordsmith was here yesterday answering your questions about the way we speak in the Nineties, and he's here again today - indeed he may well have spent the night here in the office, judging from the ashtrays and empty Beamish tins. But I think he's just about ready to tackle your inquiries about the state of the English language today, so here we go with the first one...

Dear Dr Wordsmith, Have you noticed that in autumn trees shed their leaves in different ways ? Many poplars, for instance, lose all their leaves at the bottom but keep some at the top, so that from ...

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