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Re: Dialects - and their translation


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Posted by John Nichols on May 14, 2016 at 08:43:31 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Re: Dialects - and their translation posted by Mike Field on May 14, 2016 at 05:00:20:

This is the problem with science and vernacular

Some twit, whether a gold fish or not, actually defines these things so a jiffy is actually defined as 1/100th of a second - I have no doubt as to AR's meaning - I was just being pedantic and a bit of a Roger. A moment is however from memory 40 seconds.

Of course when I tell my wife I will be a minute she translates to an hour.




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