FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks

[Damien Hall]

Neal wrote:

> Wow, and in gold *larme*, too!

Yes, I noticed that just as I sent it off. A lovely hyper-anglicisation of
the term, from an r-less speaker who couldn't really do or didn't know
about the acute accent on the <e> either!

Damien

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