My own limited but still real experience of contributing to, and then using, encyclopaedia type publications is that they are very heavily copy edited, wording and terminology standardised and compre… (View Post)

Surely some stewed prunes or some mouthwash would work better? (View Post)

Funny, though, that the logic doesn't extend to e.g. training bases, or even just doing the sweeping and cooking at RN Barrack Plymouth: a useful manpower reserve in 1938-39, easily compensated … (View Post)

4900 sq inches, in mental arithmetic. (View Post)

Baith. (View Post)