Sunday 24 February 2013

A life in letters: If the BMT


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 :’

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