OBBLEDEGOOK? 0, RAIL ENGLISH
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as pleased to see the letter C W IIarlow of Worcester M, March 15) giving monishment for your use of bbledegook words or
rases instead of proper iglish. His plea unfortunately peared to have gone heeded, judging by the adline to the previous letter bmitted by Mark Bentley of itish Railways.
How can "rail" honour ything? I have always known Lis to be made of something rly solid and inanimate, less there is some human riety of which I am ignorant!
are not alone however, for e author of the letter,
arking as he does in one of e world's greatest ,bbledegook-manufacturing mpanies writes true-to-form th the classic twaddle elebrating 80 years of
eduction at Longbridge (and any years of rail-carrying am the plant)".
Ohl really! I understood that rs were manufactured by tstin at Longbridge, not rails! avid Vaughan Williams
xmford ncolnshire