On 16 Nov 2011 11:25, "Kevin Brubeck Unhammer" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> "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
>
It tends to pop up on mailing lists and ye olde usenet more often than
elsewhere. You'll probably see it everywhere over the next week or so :-)
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