> To show how effete and east coast I am, here's some Edinburgh vernacular.
> Doc: What contraception do you use?
> Patient: I get off the train at Haymarket.
> (Haymarket being the station before Waverly, the more usual climax of a
> journey to Edinburgh)
>
> A mate of mine told this story when giving a talk to illustrate the size
> of the task facing Read code synonyms. He claims someone in the audience
> from Portsmouth or somewhere said the same vernacular was used down
> there, albeit with different stations.
>
A similar expression is used in Sydney Australia. It can't have come
with the first convicts because you lot hadn't invented the railway
at that stage!
But it is the east coast ...!
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Stephen Crawshaw
Townsville Qld
Australia
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