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To: Leapfrog
Al-Fagih, who lives with his wife and four children in a £600,000 semi

Does "semi" mean something different in British parlance?
I'm thinking six people living in a tractor-trailer is already a problem.

5 posted on 08/25/2005 4:46:32 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
"Does "semi" mean something different in British parlance?" Semi is short for semi-detched house, meaning it is attached on one side to another (usually identical house) Like these...
23 posted on 08/25/2005 5:09:05 AM PDT by Budgie
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To: Izzy Dunne
You can get a lot of semi for £600,000.


32 posted on 08/25/2005 5:22:31 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Why are we "freepers"? Shouldn't we be "freereps"? Are we dyslexic?)
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