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...losing 7½ seconds per hour. How many minutes fast will the watch be when the clock shows the right time?" A few days later, a primary schoolmaster wrote a whole article defending his incorrect answer to the question: "Here are the first six letters of the alphabet, written above and below the line. Continue the alphabet in a similar fashion...
Author Mary McMinnies, herself a charter mem-sahib (as wife of a Foreign Service official in Malaya), has a cold Waugh eye and ear for colonial types. The U.S. reader, however, cutting his way through the alphabet jungles of British officialese, should know that D.O.M. does not stand for some esoteric military order but merely for Dirty Old Man. It is all a long way from W.M.B.-the White Man's Burden of the great, dead Kipling days...
...week in royalties, has paid the death duty, upped the estate's value to $2,000,000. By last month so much money was involved that Britain's Public Trustee Office decided to test the will in court. Was the rewriting of the alphabet really a legitimate charity? The attorney general said yes; the British Museum, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and National Gallery of Ireland said...
...arguing the case, the attorney general did his best for Shaw's frustrated crusade. To G.B.S. "Dr. Johnson's Alphabet" of 26 letters was as obsolete as Roman numerals. What was needed, he insisted, was an alphabet large enough to cover all the language's 40-odd basic sounds. Such absurdities as having f, ff, gh and ph represent one single sound would be eliminated. Phone could be spelt with three letters, Shaw with only two. "The saving," said Shaw, "would pay for half a dozen wars, if we could find nothing better to spend...
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