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Originally Posted by Van Rijn
In the U.S., the word is virtually unknown, except for what you might hear in a British TV import. I'd associated it with "nonsense" and nothing more.
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Ah right. Well, earlier in this thread was:
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Please pretend that you are speaking to a class full of sixth graders and keep the language kid friendly.
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The word in question is certainly not one you'd say to a classroom full of British 11 or 12 year olds (is that what a US sixth grader is?). I suppose different words have different meanings in different places, and different grades of swearitude too.
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