Geoff ReidBradford• Can anyone explain why Cornwall, the second poorest region in northern Europe (Letters, 18 November), has six Conservative MPs? David KennedyMenston, West Yorkshire• Further to Tony Fletcher’s reference to “milky coffee” (Letters, 20 November), a coffee stall in a park in Edinburgh in the mid-19th century offered “café au lait, with or without milk”. Derek JanesDuns, Scottish Borders• The mispronunciation that makes me sigh is the French word for women’s underwear, for which almost everyone now says lohn-je-RAY. So universal has this become that anyone trying to pronounce it correctly would be thought pretentious, or simply wrong. Lindsay CampBristol• Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com• Read more Guardian letters – click here to visit gu.com/letters

Source: The Guardian November 21, 2017 18:22 UTC