In doing so, I expressed surprise that such an ancient place had not yet received civic preferment, when others like Brighton and Hove (in 2000) and Preston (in 2002) had done so, asserting that such nouveaux cities did not even have a cathedral or an abbey, whereas Reading has a fine abbey, founded by Henry I in 1121.īut I made the mistake of adding Chelmsford to that list. For some inexplicable reason, the largest conurbation in Berkshire, with two Members of Parliament, three railway stations and a university, is still just a town. Last month I apologised to Reading for the wounding error of allowing it to be described as a city in a Paul Cryptic clue for 18 October (No 26,394, 4 down). The outcome of my extensive research was that the readers' editor, in drafting the 'Correction and clarification' published in the paper on 5 December, very kindly inserted the word 'usually' into the phrase 'Bass guitars have four strings, not six'.
for the further information that 10- and 15-string versions also exist.
According to the Wikipedia entry for the bass guitar, 8- and 12-string models have been built and I am grateful for Perry M.
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