Ryder Cup | Marvellous mondegreens | Mumbled dialogue | Pudding hacks | Digital ID | Bike bells
US spectators’ behaviour at the Ryder Cup (US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America, 28 September) reminded me how shrewd George Orwell was when, in 1945, he said serious sport was “war minus the shooting”. Sadly, how topical too. Perhaps women’s increasingly popular sport will do better.
John Bailey
St Albans
• One of the great pleasures of the use of subtitles is spotting the mondegreens (Most of gen Z watch TV with the subtitles on – and I understand why, 27 September). Among my favourites over the years: “night vision giggles” for “goggles”, “sliced alone” for “Sly Stallone”, “we found two deadly oceans” for “two dead Laotians” and “raw shock test” for “Rorschach test”.
Ruth Eversley
Paulton, Somerset
