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    Getting the pricker

    Feb 06, 2022 2 minutes
    GREG DIXON

    e poor old English language, it really isn’t what it used to be. According to a recent survey in Britain – or “Pomgolia”, as sports journalist Phil Gifford’s Loosehead Len used to call it – it seems such wonderfully useful idiomatic phrases as “ready for the knacker’s yard” are ready for the knacker’s yard. According to the surveyors, only a third of the adult Pomgolians interviewed had ever

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