"Jimmy O'Regan" <[email protected]>
writes:

> On 16 November 2011 05:56, Mikel Forcada <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On other matters, I had to search for "tupp'orth" (="twopence worth",
>> apparently, in the sense of "my [humble] opinion"). First-language
>> English speakers always have an advantage over us second-language
>> speakers... :-(
>
> A typical (i.e., non-Anglophile) American would have just as much
> trouble with it: Wikipedia even has an article about the _American_
> version, which you're surely familiar with:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents_(idiom)

Yeah, I had to search that one up too. But then I was raised
"half-lingual" no–en_US so maybe I'm not representative =P


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