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<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 09 January 2007 - Volume 05<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_Andrys.Onsman@calt.monash.edu.au" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
Andrys Onsman <<a href="mailto:Andrys.Onsman@calt.monash.edu.au">Andrys.Onsman@calt.monash.edu.au</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Idiomatica' 2007.01.09 (02) [E]<br><br><span class="q">> By the way, a nickel is five cents, not ten (a 10-cent piece is a dime).
<br>> That's why Fifth Street is called "The Nickel" and, in American<br>> football, a defensive formation with five backs is called a "nickel<br>> defense" (a more typical formation has four backs).
<br>><br>> Kevin Caldwell<br><br></span><div style="direction: ltr;">Of course it is - a nickel ain't no dime! One of those moments when you<br>hit the send button just before your brain realises that you've used the
<br>wrong word. And thanks for the explanation of nickel defense - I love<br>that stuff. Is it a bit like catanaccio - the Italian-originated<br>technique of stacking the back-line and hoping to score on the break in<br>soccer? I spent a term at the University of Michigan's Post-graduate
<br>School of Music (U of M @ A2) where international standard musicians had<br>to play in the marching band at football games to get funding for the<br>school. There I'd hear the term nickel back and now, years later, I know
<br>what they were talking about! I trust the Wolverines are still rocking<br>the Big House!<br><br>Cheers<br></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="sg">Andrys</span></div><br>
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