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- Subject: Re: K Street
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.133531.11001@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 13:35:31 GMT
- References: <Bzqz8z.2Jt@techbook.com> <1992Dec24.104616.10988@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <BzwIBD.74y@techbook.com>
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- In article <BzwIBD.74y@techbook.com>, dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
- >>Downing Street (for the Prime Minister's Office)
- >
- > I've always heard it as 10 Downing Street. Has the street number got
- > lost in current British usage?
- >
- News reports seem to me to use just the street name, but political dramas
- always use `number ten' to distinguish it from number 11 (The Chancellor of the
- Exchequer) and number 12 (the whips' office).
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