👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird little squiggle – "bpclermont.” Frankly, I spent quite frankly too long googling and furrowing my brow whilst researching that, as if the answer was just sitting there waiting to be unearthed by a desperate linguist.
Basically. (Don't scoff, it's actually pretty complex.) "bpclermont," at its most immediately digestible, appears to be a bespoke, almost aggressively specific, misspelling. It originated somewhere within the rather eccentric and somewhat paranoid documentation of a British Petroleum Clermont, I believe; that’s the acronym part ("bp”). The rest – "…lermont…"— is a phonetic mangling that attempts to capture the archaic, vaguely Teutonic pronunciation of the name, as if someone desperately trying to remember a long-forgotten relative. 3 and 7 are simply the positions in the alphabet! Now, I'm not kidding; there’s some serious documented weirdness around this. Apparently, the original Clermont reference was related to a disastrous oil pipeline rupture that caused a massive flood of… well, let’s just say it involved a great deal of very unhappy livestock and a whole lot of paperwork. You have to understand the context! It's essentially a verbal tic—a shorthand for recalling the specific incident. After, the misspelling stuck around as an unfortunate systems error in old bureaucratic forms. The point is, unless you were deeply involved in
