As Malta reportedly has the lowest level of books readership in Europe, the island’s journals provide a benchmark of written standards (English or Maltese) for many of their readers.

When it comes to Shakespeare’s quirky language, TMID has unquestionably been the one in which spelling errors have been rare during 2007. Sorry to say that misspellings elsewhere have created tearful (cry? laugh?) howlers in some contexts.

TMID is at the top of the class and setting the standard for the competition to aspire to.

Alex P Galea

Woking, Surrey

England