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RONYMS have become an ustry in Britain as well as oss the Atlantic. Every large ianisation has, I am winced, a department jaged solely in producing )s, most of them improbable i some meaningless, with ials that spell catchy names. -1 North America, Greenville ia Transit is rendered as EAT, Tahoe Area Regional nsit as TART, and rernment on Ontario Transit 30 Transit. But Raleigh in -th Carolina has skilfully ided the rat-trap and called ransport undertaking Capital a Transit.
, computer program newly developed by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory and University College, London, to determine the most suitable road route is • known as BRUTUS. Two famous Romans of this name came to sticky ends, but the modern road builders hope that if they get the chop, it will be purely economic.