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To: C19fan

One that irritates me is when an American TV announcer of a soccer game calls a 1-0 score “one-nil”. There’s nothing backward about using the American “one-to-nothing” when speaking to an American audience.


7 posted on 09/28/2012 9:16:06 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

One of the oddest Britishisms I’ve heard is “moggie”, which means cat.


26 posted on 09/28/2012 9:59:24 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
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