Friday, March 18, 2011

Many ears

Last Saturday’s Times Prize Crossword #24,795 had one clue which really made me smile – a nice play on an idiom we are not supposed to use any more.

“Time needed to build a large audience?” (3-5)

Answer: man-years.

Perhaps we could go back to using this useful measure in a non-sexist way if we just amended the pronunciation - How many many-ears would that take?


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