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Posted by Lewis on January 20, 2003

In Reply to: Number sayings with initials only known posted by Sarah on January 05, 2003

: QUESTION 1 I T A T I O - T T
: QUESTION T 9 T B D L S

"The Nine Tailors" by Dorothy L Sayers it's a Lord Peter Wimsey detective story - the Tailors are a peel of bells.
Weird thing was - the first word I wrote down was "tailors" and I carried on thinking for ages before realising that it was that simple.