Word: tomalin
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...people I've interviewed during my stay in London, a biographer named Claire Tomalin, told me that to this day she converts a restaurant check back into the old pounds, shillings and pence so that she can, as she was raised to do, calculate the tip at two and six (or half a crown) for each pound...
...admit that Tomalin is somebody who converts centigrade temperature into Fahrenheit before she ventures out of the house and is widely suspected of having written her recently published biography of Jane Austen in longhand...