[Ads-l] Heard on Britspeak TV: "His business went _burst_."

[Robin Hamilton]

I don't think Brits, of whatever variety, talk about a business going "burst" --
unless they're thinking of an accident in a fireworks factory.

However, they will be found, quite commonly, to refer to a business
establishment "going bust [sic]".

GDoS? -- Thusly: "bust adj.  //  also busted, busted up  //  [bust v.1 (4c)]  //
 1. bankrupt, subject to financial collapse."  Citations from 1829.

Also in OED, which derives "bust" from "burst".

R.

> 
>     On 28 November 2016 at 03:02 Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 
>     The speaker was a reporter from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, speaking in Rothbury
>     in Northumberland. Do Americans ever say "go burst"? I've never heard it.
> 
>     He also pronounced "leverage" as "leeverage." To me, "levver/leever" is
>     like "ekkonomic/eekonomic," but I've never heard "leeverage," before,
>     either.
> 
>     --
>     -Wilson
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