End of an Era

Unsurprisingly, the telephone has not started ringing. But there may be one or two readers out there who rightly surmise that in the general excitement of what those at the Saturday Times will no doubt call a ‘makeover’, Lexiconfusion appears to have perished at the sword of redesign. We have no rebuttal to such an inference. It does indeed appear to be the case.

In other words, as Mrs Spelling so eloquently put it, we ‘got the shove’.

It has been an honour and a privilege to sit in this book-lined Scriptorium warming my feet beside the roaring fire whilst pondering the next homograph to be inserted in the pages of the Times. But all good things must come to an end. Or must they? Perhaps if enough of our dear Readers disagreed with my cliche-ridden assessment and made their disquiet at the loss of Lexiconfusion known to the powers that be at the newspaper, then we might be reinstated… It is just a thought – the editor can be contacted on letters@thetimes.co.uk