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Letter: Letter

Published 1 July 2000

From Andrew Johnston

I want to oppose the tide of nominative determinism that regularly sweeps
your column. We had a cooker delivered a few months ago by Mike Fridge. He
couldn’t install it though—he only did washing machines.

Gairloch, Ross-shire

Issue no. 2245 published 1 July 2000

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