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12th Feb 2013, 11:58

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I suspect it is a colonial cock up deriving from the 'old' phonetic alphabet where 'Q' was pronounced 'Queenie', 'N' 'Nan' and 'H' 'How'. Thus 'Queenie Nan How' as QNH - and they didn't notice it had changed. (1956

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