Google| Subject | Re: Ha ha - even *more* Scand linguistics; was: The British Secret Service... |
| From | paulh |
| Date | 2002-04-24 03:37 (2002-04-24 03:37) |
| Message-ID | <ju2ccu4n1d97e9fbr91387tsp8k8di93fi@4ax.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | David Flood |
| Followups | Annette Fraser (2h & 2m) David Flood (5h & 46m) |
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:10:53 +0100, "David Flood" <NOSPAMmaoltuile@utvinternet.ie>wrote:
David FloodNot entirely true.
'Football' here in Ireland, of curse, means the Gaelic variety http://www.gaa.ie/.
In Oz it means Aussie Rules (basically Gaelic with some Rugby influences), and in Americ-ay it's Grid Iron, as you say.
In Aust NSW and Queensland are 'Rugby States' and they call Rugby League 'Football' (generally)...In all the the other states Aussie Rules is predominant and is called Football (or Footy more usually). The Dichotomy between these two codes in their respective states is very strong...
paulh
2002-03-30-
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