chain gangs and bucket brigades

[Aaron E. Drews]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

}but is "bucket brigade"
}used in british english?

So far as I can tell, yes.  I just came across it last night reading a
Terry Pratchet book , _Fifth Elephant_.(I know, I should be reading
something like _Principles of Linguistic Change_, etc. :-)  ).  I've
noticed several other Britishisms in the book, leading me to suspect that
"bucket brigade" is not an attempt at using an Americanism (though I doubt
Pratchet would even bother).

--Aaron


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