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From: prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul Dormer)
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Subject: Re: MT VOID, 05/10/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 45, Whole Number 2327
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 11:56 +0100 (BST)
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In article <v1qnhs$2q0p3$1@dont-email.me>, evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com
(Evelyn C. Leeper) wrote:

> 
> In response to Evelyn's comments on word use and mis-use in the
> 05/03/24 issue of the MT VOID, Paul Dormer writes:
> 
> I remember, some years ago, seeing a description of a forthcoming
> TV programme.  It was about someone setting up a company to
> provide office lunches.  The person was described as an ancestor
> of the Earl of Sandwich.  [-pd]

Incidentally, a follow-up is a letter in The Guardian a while back from
someone complaining that British Summer Time (daylight saving) starts end
of March, just after the solstice but it ends at the end of October, a
month after the solstice.  Of course, they meant equinox, not solstice.