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Code of honour

Dan Davies’ recent directory listings joke (B:\forMutton, R:\forMo etc) seems to have historical pedigree.
“It appears Dan has found one of the variations of a code used during World War Two in North Africa, which baffled the Germans,” says Nicholas Russell at Cambridge Printers.
Of course nowadays anyone can create undecipherable communications – just switch on predictive text.

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