I wanted to comment on Clive James's short piece this month, for your information and hopefully also for his.

Most of the article is entertaining and interesting, once you remember to engage the ego filter. However I can't let him get away with his little rant about "co-share". I'm still hoping this is a subtle Clive-joke and that he's pulling our collective leg; but if so, he ought to give at least some kind of clue.

As Clive tells it, airlines first commit a tautological sin by turning "share" into "co-share", then corrupt it further into "code-share". Surely a well-travelled chap like Clive knows it's the other way round: two airlines selling seats on the same route frequently share a single aircraft, but each keeps its own flight number with its unique airline code. Hence "code-share": a useful bit of  industry jargon to describe this type of subcontracting. Obviously this word could easily sound like "co-share" when heard over the Qantas PA system, leading Clive to suffer a small bout of linguistic apoplexy which he then has to share with the rest of us.

Many of your readers would have met this term before and are probably wondering what Clive is on about, so I'm surprised you let it through. Or have I missed some deep Clive-ism here?

Apart from that, this month's issue is yet another good read - thanks.