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Old Sun Dec 21, 2003, 08:35am
Jay R Jay R is offline
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Re: Irony

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Originally posted by JCurrie
I find this discussion a bit ironic. Here in the States, referees are getting excited about the possibility of switching from stripes to grays. It seems that "with the times," simply means, "moving to something different." However, the grays being marketed down here are a bit different, as they have black pin-striping, and are spelled with an 'a' instead of an 'e';-)
Up here, we spell a few words differently: grey, centre, colour, theatre, labour (and many more).
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