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To: EMI_Guy

Hill said something during her testimony about having “a brogue” that she felt would inhibit her advancement in Britain so she came over here.
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“Brogue”= Irish accent.


1,653 posted on 11/23/2019 5:13:12 AM PST by Yulee
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To: Yulee
,i>Hill said something during her testimony about having “a brogue” that she felt would inhibit her advancement in Britain so she came over here. ******************** “Brogue”= Irish accent.

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American possibility contrasted for Hill with British prejudice. A “very distinctive working-class accent” would have “impeded my professional advancement” in the England of the 1980s and ’90s, she told the House Intelligence Committee.

1,685 posted on 11/23/2019 7:03:59 AM PST by darbymcgill
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To: Yulee
Hill said something during her testimony about having “a brogue” that she felt would inhibit her advancement in Britain

Ha...maybe shrillary got a brogue up the backside

Brogue shoe

The Brogue is a style of low-heeled shoe or boot traditionally characterised by multiple-piece, sturdy leather uppers with decorative perforations and serration along the pieces' visible edges. Modern brogues trace their roots to a rudimentary shoe originating in Ireland that was constructed using untanned hide.Wikipedia

Me I would prefer dexterous use of a pair of studded Doc Martin clodhoppers


1,809 posted on 11/23/2019 1:33:28 PM PST by spokeshave (If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
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