Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: occam Newsgroups: alt.usage.english Subject: Re: Receipts - But a new slant Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:25:07 +0200 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <87tsqlhpwd.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> <87h5mkhbds.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net croWw7ZX9nq2Y8hbnHx89Q5pafyMFj24mtXGmjBhBigjPe93J7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:J+PKwJFCQ7mSPu/py3BY4hNs1xo= sha256:lpC4xeiQaH2z2kF6mWjrnaiaAN6EOiKsXKY35OnRGdE= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <87h5mkhbds.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> Xref: csiph.com alt.usage.english:1145911 On 30/06/2026 06:59, Mike Spencer wrote: > occam writes: > >> On 29/06/2026 07:33, Mike Spencer wrote: >>> Tony Cooper writes: >>> >>>> Consider, for example, "sticky wicket". Most Americans have no real >>>> conception of what a wicket is, and only a vague idea that it has >>>> something to do with cricket. Yet, they'll say/write that this is a >>>> sticky wicket instead of the simpler and more understandable "This is >>>> a difficult situation". American readers/hearers will not consider >>>> this a Britishism; they'll consider it part of our language. >>> >>> But not LBW. I had to have "leg before wicket" explained to me. >> >> Did he go on to explain a 'googly'? BrE had 'googly' before Google came >> along. > > No. Enlightenment awaited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googly > > I knew about the googol long before Google morphed and coopted it but > nothing like that ever came up with my Brit informant. >