Two dead and 70 passengers are injured as Amtrak train smashes into freight carriages in South...

DAILY MAIL UK ^ | Feb 4, 2018 | Valerie Edwards For Dailymail.com and Alexander Robertson For Mailonline

[dfwgator]

My favorite Brit expression, “Sixes and Sevens” - a condition of confusion or disarray.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That is a good one, isn't it? Wiki says it means "crazy, muddled" as you say. Interesting origin: from the London Livery Company order of precedence, in which position 6 is claimed by both the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors and the Worshipful Company of Skinners.

Check out Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States. There isn't anything Wiki doesn't have!

[cymbeline]

“Freight carriages?”

It’s more dignified than ‘freight car’, just as ‘administrative assistant’ is more dignified than ‘secretary’, ‘custodian’ is more dignified than ‘janitor’ ... we could go on and on.

Here in my county they call classrooms ‘teaching stations’.

[Albion Wilde]

So sorry for the families of the victims. RIP

[dforest]

This is what NTSB is reporting today. The switch was in the wrong position.

I am starting to think that someone s behind this. Like Antifa or terrorists.