If the BMT put
: A rather abstruse puzzle relating to punctuation
and coal fires which my mother showed me when I was about nine and wrote in a
little red-covered notebook. It involves referring to a capital B as ‘great B’.
Being interpreted, the puzzle reads ‘If
the grate be empty, put coal on.’ This word of domestic advice concluded ‘if
the B. putting :’
Sunday 24 February 2013
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