Vowel foul

June 11, 2009

Leslie Norins is exercised by the "crude sexism" of your headline "Grants and pants ..." (21 May), but hailing from south of Watford, I am just as concerned about the subtle inferential assumption that "grants" rhymes with "pants".

Dominic Reeve, Professor, School of Engineering, University of Plymouth.

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