A thought occurred to me while watching our three-year-old yomp his way through a plate of Alphabetti Spaghetti on toast yesterday: do Heinz skimp on the cost of producing a separate W by just doubling the amount of Ms, as when they’re upside-down on a plate, they appear indistinguishable?
Similarly, if they were to introduce lower-case characters, the letters b, d, p and q are all interchangeable. They could save a fortune, (except, of course, they’d have to produce each of the other 22 letters as well).
Admittedly it wasn’t a very interesting thought, but a thought nonetheless.
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