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Pense-wise, they are pense foolish
In the old days, policemen were all six feet tall, children played football in the street, and BT employees knew how to spell.
Our regular correspondent John Loader emailed BT to ask how expensive it was to call the US, because he had trouble finding the call rates on the web site.
The reply: “On landline telephone the call charges are: Day time: 15 pense per minute and call set up fee which is 6 pense. Evenings and weekends: 10 pense per minute and call set-up fee which is 6 pense.”
On the other hand it’s not all bad, John. In the old days they might have spelled your reply correctly, but you’d have been a bit more than a quid poorer after a 10-minute call to the States. That’s the price of progress.
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