Following President Donald Trump’s latest petulant outburst against the UK (‘Get your own oil’: Trump launches tirade against Europe for not joining Iran war, 31 March) as he flails around for a way out of the quagmire he has got the world into with his illegal and unnecessary war on Iran, rather than agreeing to send King Charles for a state visit to the US, should we not instead tell him to “Go get your own royal”?
David Griffiths
Teddington, London
• In reply to Jon Quine (Letters, 31 March), I would add a further use of lashings. Contrary to the popular myth created by the Comic Strip’s Famous Five spoofs broadcast on Channel 4 in the 1980s, Enid Blyton never used the phrase “lashings of ginger beer”. However, her young adventurers did enjoy lashings of hard-boiled eggs in their picnics.
Neil Cole
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
• In his Dictionary of Slang, Eric Partridge suggests that lashings (generally of drink, occasionally of food, rarely of anything else) meaning plenty, comes from lavishings or lashing out as in squandering. The example he gives is “whiskey in lashings” from 1841.
Peter Criddle
Shrewsbury, Shropshire
• After all these years of looking for the clitoris, I’ve finally found it – in the Guardian (Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time, 29 March)! Who’d have thought it.
John Quigley
Walsall, West Midlands
• I heard there was an article on the clitoris in the Guardian on 1 April, but I had problems finding it.
Ken Ward
Crewe, Cheshire
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