If Alice Bondi is English (perhaps married to an Australian?), has she never heard of dumb blondes, -bells and chicks, which all equate with stupid?
Re the news headline ‘From daily spread may grow dumb babies’ (WDDTY, vol 12 no 10, p 11), I realise that Lynne McTaggart is from the USA and that there are US readers, but I feel that a publication based in the UK