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The joys of autocorrect: Handel’s Dixit Dominus

A monument to George Frideric Handel by Louis-François Roubiliac (1762) in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, London.
A monument to George Frideric Handel by Louis-François Roubiliac (1762) in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, London. Photograph: Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy

Coco Khan is right to enjoy the unexpected delights of autocorrect (Autocorrect can be ‘ducking’ annoying, but we’ll miss its accidental poetry when it’s gone, 7 June). My personal favourite popped up when I was writing up a performance of Handel’s Dixit Dominus. It took me some time to correct autocorrect’s insistence that what I meant was dixie dominoes.
David Collins
Harpenden, Hertfordshire

• Regarding Rich Pelley’s discussion of Noel Gallagher’s cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart (Opinion, 8 June), surely the definitive cover version is by the Hot 8 Brass Band, which turns this mopey teenage dirge into something brash and joyful.
Gerwyn Moseley
Gilwern, Monmouthshire

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