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Ministry of Defence tells contractors not to answer certain UK census questions over security fears

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Re: Census data

In several languages the first-born boy is named either "son" or the number for "one". Many years ago it was a common English humorous expression to refer to "number one son" and "number two son". As it was often used by a Chinese detective character of that era - it suggests that it is possibly a way Chinese boys can be named?

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