Bombs and the army | Russians and privacy | Seagull absence | Swedish grandparents | Post-Brexit floraSomeone should ask Philip Hammond,a former secretary of state for defence, precisely which bombs Jeremy Corbyn wouldn’t supply to the army (Report, and 4 May). Its the RAF that uses bombs (in the absence of naval aircraft capable of this,due to the Tories scrapping them).
Joe Power
Farnborough, Hampshire• Viv Groskop comments wittily on the absence of a word for “privacy”, and in the sense of “personal space”,in Russian (G2, 3 May), and though it’s worth mentioning it’s well equipped with terms related to “spaciousness”. But are any other languages different? Neither French nor German seem to beget convenient word for that meaning of “privacy”. Maybe it’s an English sort of thing.
Robin Milner-Gulland
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Source: theguardian.com