Letter: Clever being stupid

Alan Bishop
Saturday 09 October 1993 23:02 BST
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Danny Baker 'takes the risk of looking like an idiot but doesn't' writes William Leith ('Clever being stupid', 3 October). The construction clearly called out for the word 'bain't' rather than 'doesn't'. Its absence from the written language is to be deplored.

Alan Bishop, Cambridge

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