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WB Yeats' Aristotle | Walter Scott's cauliflowers | Global warming | Logo T-shirtsThe interesting word "footsolider" (Paul Mason, G2, 19 April) deserves the kind of exegesis that occurred over the lines "Soldier Aristotle played the taws/Upon the bottom of a king of kings" in the printed version of WB Yeats' Among School Children. Much energy was spent by scholars explaining, some quite plausibly, why Aristotle was referred to as a soldier, until inspection of the manuscript showed that Yeats had written "Solider Aristotle".
Karl Sabbagh
Bloxham, Oxfordshire
" "Global warming/climate change" sounds cuddly. "Climate cancer" might move record temperature rises from page six (World's hottest March in more than 100 years, 16 April) to the front page.
Jane Freeman
Bristol