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Letter: Letters : . . . . .

Published 28 February 1998

From Peter Verstage

London

Your piece reminded me of the perplexed engineer reading a
computer-translated Russian technical journal which made frequent mention of
“water goats”. After a lot of head scratching, the solution dawned. They were in
fact “hydraulic rams”.

Issue no. 2123 published 28 February 1998

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