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Default Bread question: "Ohms"?
On 25/06/2016 1:25 PM, wrote:
> I saw this in a 1972 Raymond Briggs illustration in "The Fairy Tale Treasury," ed. Virginia Haviland. In the Grimm tale "Simpleton," the main character leads a hungry man to a building-sized loaf of bread. In Briggs' illustration, the letters OHMS appear on the loaf, IIRC.
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> Does anyone know why he did that? (He's British, for those who don't know.)
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> Lenona.
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On His/Her Majesty's Service.
It used to be the case, and possibly still is, that any letter one
received from a government department had OHMS on the envelope.
Graham
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