‘Hammer chewer’ mistakes to make

Pass notes on annoying mispronunciations jog readers’ memories and raise a smile. Photograph: Getty

I read your piece on mispronunciations with interest (Pass notes, 23 June), but it turned out to be something of a damp squid.
Richard Percy
Wigan, Lancashire

• An editor on the radio station where I worked years ago rang me to ask if the actors in the play I had just reported on had broken all their teeth. “You said they were hammer chewers,” he explained. “It is “amma-ter.” I have said “amateur” that way ever since.
David Beake
Budock Water, Cornwall

• Is it my age? Sirin Kale’s article about memes and non-fungible tokens may as well have been written in Babylonian script for all I understood it (NFTs and me: meet the people trying to sell their memes for millions, 23 June.
Linda Weir
Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire

• Never mind the suspect tuna at Subway (Report, 22 June), I had a pizza in Bristol where mushrooms were shaped to resemble anchovies. When I pointed this out, the owner brought out a plate of them and I was obliged to eat them as he stood by.
Helen Esplin
Coalway, Gloucestershire

• Do the letters (23 June) detailing the exploits of the elderly remind anyone else of the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch?
Bill Britnell (72)
Shrewsbury, Shropshire

• Re the photograph captioned: “Thermometer makers go on strike in Cumbria in 1972” (Eyewitness, 24 June). Had things boiled over, or become icy?
Edward McReynolds
Yateley, Hampshire

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