# An Historic Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-historic-question/303102>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 9, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-historic-question/303102 "2005-05-09T19:28:57Z")\
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An American violinist walks into a music store in England, and tells the clerk he needs to buy an ‘E’ string.

The clerk goes away and comes out with a big box of violin strings.

“Find it yourself”, the clerk says. “I can’t tell an _‘E’_ string from a _‘She’_ string”.

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