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Letter: Doubling up

Published 1 April 1995

From David Brokensha

Richard West (Letters, 11 March) gives 108 possible meanings to the sentence, “When John met his uncle in the street he took off his hat”. This number can easily be doubled: “uncle” can mean either “mother’s brother” or “father’s brother”.

Issue no. 1971 published 1 April 1995

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