Mike Harrity, secretary of The Dyke Golf Club in Brighton, was rather surprised to find he had lost his job when he read The Argus Jobs section on Thursday last week.
Mike had wanted to advertise for a full- time assistant but we left out the word assistant in the published ad (and also inexplicably added that it was the Dyke Road Golf Club) and so made it look like he had left or been sacked.
My apologies to Mike. Anyone who is interested in the assistant's job can write to him at the club in Devil's Dyke Road or email secretary@dykegolfclub.org.uk My item last week about the editing of a letter from Brighton and Hove City Council leader Ken Bodfish has prompted another correction, which I should have thought of.
Andrew McAlpine says Coun Bodfish's sentence 'It's a braver soul than I who' should have read 'than me'.
He explains: "The 'I' is the subject personal pronoun. It is often used instead of me because people think it's posher. It isn't. It's simply wrong."
Meanwhile, Maurice Packham, from Horsham, agrees with me that correct English should come before political correctness.
He says: "Split infinitives still make me wince but the following is more painful: 'Everybody is entitled to their (instead of his) opinion'."
Edward Goring, from Ovingdean, adds: "Would that there were more editors with courage to put the boot in when political correctness is taken to such absurd lengths." Thank you, gentlemen.
Our review of the film The Mother in last Friday's If It's On... was accompanied by a picture of one of cast, Daniel Craig, but said in the caption it was co-star Peter Vaughan (who readers may remember from Brazil and the TV series Porridge). My thanks to Paul Johnston, from Hove, for spotting that one.
Mike Munday complains about the front page headline on our Mid Sussex edition last Friday saying 'Christmas rail strike threat' above a story explaining Gatwick Express trains would be affected by drivers' strikes on December 24 and 31.
Mike, who runs the Homestead bed and breakfast in Burgess Hill, says: "On a standard off-peak service there are four Gatwick Express trains to London an hour plus four Thameslink services and six South Central services.
"I am sure that with ten trains an hour remaining, your headline will be the biggest overstatement your headline writer has written this year." Thanks.
Gary Turner, managing director of Central Entertainments Ltd, thanks us for the review of Alicia Keys, appearance at the Honeyclub in Brighton on November 4 but wants to correct our reviewer's suggestion that the club doesn't have the best sound system for the gig.
He says: "The system for this gig was bought in by Radio 1 and was not the club's system. We have the best sound system in the South-East, let alone Brighton."
Daphne Fletcher, of Hove Scrabble Club, says the article about the board game on Tuesday last week wrongly described the club as Brighton and Hove Scrabble Club. Although many members do come from Brighton, the name is not in the title. For those interested, the club meets every Thursday at Hove Conservative Club at 6.15pm. Daphne is on 01273 770792.
And finally, Brighton and Hove Mayor Jeane Lepper thanks us for our "excellent" coverage of Remembrance Sunday events in The Argus on Monday last week.
However, she points out she is mayor, not, as we said, mayoress - a term to describe the wife or partner of a male mayor.
She adds: "Ten years ago, when David (her husband and now Brighton Pavilion Labour MP) was mayor of Brighton, I was his mayoress so if anyone has the right to be called mayoress it must be him! He is, of course, known as the mayor's consort."
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