Sir, - It seems to me that the ad nauseam use of the word "listen" little helps to add a glisten to the art of conversation.
Wherefore, far from being listenable, it should be jettisoned as a superfluous, meaningless cliche and duly ditched as an unwelcome, deleterious glitch in the free flow of verbal intercourse. - Yours, etc.,
Fr Pat Deighan, Laytown, Co Meath.