Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

Stone Gordonssen wrote:

>>> I've never heard the words metcard,
>>>
>> Electronically/magnetically validated public transport ticket
>> (credit-card sized).
>
>
> Usually referred to in the USA by the moniker of the transit system (e.g.
> MARTA, BART) with "-card" suffixed.

Same process, then. Until they broke up the system for
privatised[1]---the same time they introduced metcards---the face of the
PTC for metropolitan transport was The Met, and people often still refer
to the PTC as The Met (for country transport, it is and remains V/Line).
Apparently because of the horrible mess that privatisation is, was, and
ever shall be, the Goverment want to re-combine the two train and two
tram companies and call everything (including the bus companies) Metlink.

[1]: ObIHatePrivatisation comment here. The Government now once again
operates half of the system (National Express gave a week's warning and
then up and left on Boxing Day (the day after Christmas) last year). One
does not get into public transport for profit.

Pardon the rant. Isn't politics fun?

>>> dettol,
>>
>> Antiseptic thing made by a presumably English company: the Queen uses
>> it.
>> If you get a cut that might get infected, you would wash it in
>> Dettol. Orangey color. Distinctive smell.
>
> Betadine, I think.

As has been mentioned by me and others, no. It doesn't seem to be.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>