| Show the virtue of abbreviation A in the standard complaining ot of the london habit ot of abbreviation sas he be would like to hang bang the fiend who chilst ened the tha baker and waterloo Wat eiloo ballway the Bak eiloo tube we think ho ha should canonize lan onize him this column speaks with a certain anxiety for it at least gave curi currency ency to both thosa abbreviations on the opening day of the shepherds bush and mansion house line a forgotten omnibus driver fired the gibe it aint aln t no noticing tIrIng but a tube at the people who turned from his omnibus and took to the bowels of the earth the officials official 3 who could build a railway could not name it the drivers gibe fixed the tha word in the aime sime way the london public though quite ready to travel by the baker street and waterloo railway wanted to save its ita breath and for the economy of hurried speech the suggestion was here made ba kerfoo the two wor words ds have been bee n taken to the libart of travelers ana recel receded Ned official sanction for at trafalgar square iou oil are directed to the Baker loo tube the phrase la Is swift comen convenient tent as a matter of speech and has just as much i elation to literary language as a bill of lading ladine london chronicle |
