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October 3rd 04, 05:05 PM
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Obscure dictionary trivia
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 08:51:44 +0000 (UTC), "Troy Steadman"
wrote: "Mark Brader" wrote in message Which disaster that took place in what is now (and maybe was then, I won't be specific) a part of the London Underground system is mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary? Google suggests the London Underground has been mercifully spared too many disasters - not sure where "accident" finishes and "disaster" starts mind you... The crush at Bethnal Green and the wartime bombing of the other "B" stations... Bamden Town? Bambeth North??? Barble Arch???? Brafalgar square????? -- Nick Cooper [Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!] The London Underground at War: http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...ra/lu/tuaw.htm 625-Online - classic British television: http://www.625.org.uk 'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic: http://www.thingstocome.org.uk |
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