LL-L 'Idiomatica' 2007.01.09 (05) [E]

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From: Andrys Onsman <Andrys.Onsman at calt.monash.edu.au>
Subject: LL-L 'Idiomatica' 2007.01.09 (02) [E]

> By the way, a nickel is five cents, not ten (a 10-cent piece is a dime).
> That's why Fifth Street is called "The Nickel" and, in American
> football, a defensive formation with five backs is called a "nickel
> defense" (a more typical formation has four backs).
>
> Kevin Caldwell

Of course it is - a nickel ain't no dime! One of those moments when you
hit the send button just before your brain realises that you've used the
wrong word. And thanks for the explanation of nickel defense - I love
that stuff. Is it a bit like catanaccio - the Italian-originated
technique of stacking the back-line and hoping to score on the break in
soccer? I spent a term at the University of Michigan's Post-graduate
School of Music (U of M @ A2) where international standard musicians had
to play in the marching band at football games to get funding for the
school. There I'd hear the term nickel back and now, years later, I know
what they were talking about! I trust the Wolverines are still rocking
the Big House!

Cheers
Andrys

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