BIG BEN
Sir,-How often one of the bestknown features of London is misnamed! In a quiz recently, when the quiz-master asked, "What is the name of the clock on the British Houses of Parliament?" the reply was "Big Ben." And the answerer got away with it! The quiz-master’s ears should be burning, for the many of us who, visiting London, have answered that same question (usually put by eager London children) in the same way and been gleéfully counted wrong. That clock is St. Stephen’s clock-and Big Ben is the name of just one of the bells.
BETTY
KEENE
(Pokeno) _
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 922, 12 April 1957, Page 11
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100BIG BEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 922, 12 April 1957, Page 11
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