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- From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
- Subject: Re: K Street
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.055157.29196@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 05:51:57 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group
- References: <BzwIBD.74y@techbook.com> <1992Dec30.133531.11001@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1992Dec30.135951.11004@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Dec30.135951.11004@vax.oxford.ac.uk> wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- >In article <1992Dec30.133531.11001@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- >> 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).
- >>
- >Another one which has just sprung too mind:
- >
- >Whitehall for the British civil service.
- >
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- But is this Whitehall the (former) palace or the thoroughfare? I had
- always assumed the former, in which case it would not qualify.
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- Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
- "Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
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