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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!oxuniv!wilcox
  2. From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: K Street
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec30.135951.11004@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 30 Dec 92 13:59:51 GMT
  7. References: <Bzqz8z.2Jt@techbook.com> <1992Dec24.104616.10988@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <BzwIBD.74y@techbook.com> <1992Dec30.133531.11001@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
  8. Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620
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  11. In article <1992Dec30.133531.11001@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
  12. > News reports seem to me to use just the street name, but political dramas
  13. > always use `number ten' to distinguish it from number 11 (The Chancellor of the
  14. > Exchequer) and number 12 (the whips' office).
  15. > 
  16. Another one which has just sprung too mind:
  17.  
  18. Whitehall for the British civil service.
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  22. Stephen Wilcox             |   For Sale: Posts in British Government. Suit
  23. wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk    |   outgoing American. Highest bids accepted.
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