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Paul

Yes I thought that letter-writer referred to you. But your letters are not tedious, quite the opposite, so it was a poor clue.

Paul,

I'll set aside my homophonephobia to comment on your clue, or 'your' clue! It was good that you got a name check, and I quite liked the 'letter writer' rather than 'posts [on the Forum] writer' that would have been my first thought.

Paul

Congratulations on your clue. A few Pedants have had one, but I am still waiting for mine.

Malone

I am sorry you are suffering from homophonephobia, but at least it is not as bad as phoneyhomophonephobia, resulting from recent fake homophones in the Times.

Poster dance by limo? (6)

Tell you what, jigjag, if I ever win Clueless or Peer Review again, I'll think about setting JIGJAG the next week!

Jigjag
Thanks for the wonderful word. It won't be easy to drop it into casual conversation, but I'll have a go. If we want to add to our Forum Thesaurus, maybe we can have Pseudohomophoneophobia too?

ChrisE

Thanks, great clue. I think an anagram one might prove difficult!

Malone

I love it - a 22-letter synonym!

Watching Masterchef. Why do the chefs say "toomeric" when it's "tuRmeric"?

Chrise - turmeric agreed.

It made me investigate scallops. Despite a rare permissible spelling of scollops, I have always preferred the short 'a' sound, despite accepting that 'wallops' has an 'o' sound. A horse gallops, of course.

Now I find the Old French derivation from 'escalope', so surely my scallop preference is justified.

While I'm on a French kick, I hate hearing 'lingerie' so often pronounced 'longerie' by the English.

Paulh

Most people around here tend to say `scallops` to rhyme with `wallops` ... not `gallops` - there is a place called Wath (upon Dearne), not far away from me, which I pronounce like `Goth` , although locals might prefer the `math` version ... all very confusing, with little logic involved!