I’ve been getting lots of email about my use of the word gormless recenly. Here’s a particularly feckful email brimming with ert prose:

Yesterday in the Corner, you mentioned George Allen’s “gormless retorts”. If you had approved of his retorts, would they have been gormful? Presumably, an abundance of gorms is the opposite of the complete absence of gorms. In any case, the word “gormless” just never gets old.