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10 August 2014

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Town twinning opportunity

Those 'I heart GY' t-shirts you made a few years back... are you completely sure you didn't nick the idea from the tourist board of the Hungarian city of Győr?

I happened to visit there a few days ago during a trip across central Europe and discovered a bunch of merchandise with 'I heart GY' on them.

from Rich Lord

Letters Ed responds: Let's just say thanks for including the website address Rich. We'll be onto them just as soon as we've worked out what the Hungarian is for 'intellectual property'.

Snatched

I've just been on the Harrogate Town webbo. Apparently, GTFC could only only "snatch a win".

Isn't scoring in the last minute of the match "snatching a win"? Just playing for a draw, then scoring in open play during the match is snatching a win. Are they insinuating Grimsby were on ropes most of the match and by sheer luck two goals were scored? Or is it that several weeks of DIY and gardening has desensitized me from footyspeak, and once I start hearing 'over the moon', 'sick as a parrot', and 'definitely' every third word I'll soon get in the groove.

For those who didn't go to Brazil for the World Cup, Copacabana Beach doesn't have a pier. Just trying to make you feel better.

from Jan Przeniczny

Letters Ed responds: Maybe it has a pier, but it's so short it never gets its feet wet?

Homesick

This article is pure genius! Fantastic! Yes we all thought Chapman's Pond was bottomless!!!

I've lived in South Africa for 34 years but living in Port Elizabeth, it makes me so homesick reading things like this!

THANKS!

from Paul Rowe

Letters Ed responds: Bet Rio doesn't have a bottomless pond either.

Tales of the North Bank

Hi there,

The girl who manages our training team is from 'ull and she comes out with some classics. We're an IT company in the finance/insurance sector, so there are lots of mentions of words like:

quert: an estimate given for the cost of something, e.g. a car insurance quert; the recounting of a phrase, usually encapsulated in quertation marks

turtle: the sum of two or more amounts; complete

clern: an exact copy of something

herm: the place where one lives; lays their hat; where the heart is; where charity begins

We thus are given such classics as "clern a herm quert, and then check the turtle". We also (in the pub after work one day) made up the following classic to take full comedic advantage of her accent: "Err nerr, there's nerr hurl in mah perler".

I once bought her a birthday present of a poster, done in the London Underground style that simply read: "No smirking".

Love the site!

from Robin McKenzie

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