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eLetters: Aid from an Unexpected Quarter
In response to: Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. Milne

Dennis Coles
Email: cclws@shdtech.com
Affiliation: Coles & Coles Languages with Style
Posted on: January 3, 2001


We have quite of lot of students from Hong Kong, who need to have their English brought to a more sophisticated level. We are trying to help them understand some of the subtleties of our speech. The other day the phrase 'tongue-in-cheek' came up, and I am now using your article to illustrate this style of writing.

We think it quite brilliant here.

 

 

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