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Old September 15th 17, 10:46 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
Adam Funk
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On 2017-09-15, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

In message , Ken Blake
writes:


I like British crosswords much more than American crosswords, so I
finally understood it, but for most of the American here, you might
want to explain what "a left" is in that clue.

Really? I thought "take a left" as shorthand for "take a left turn" was
something we'd imported from American English.


Isn't there a song with a chorus (or even the title) like "two wrongs
don't make a right but three lefts do"?


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