not WOTY yet

[Lynne Murphy]

Perhaps a candidate for the Separated by a Common Language BrE-to-AmE WotY.

<http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/search/label/WotY>

Lynne

--On 17 July 2011 19:07 +0100 victor steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Much of the News International scandal reporting mentions "blagging". This
> includes not only stories about the illegal activities of the Murdoch
> media empire, but also The Sun response to Gordon Brown "blagging" about
> The Sun obtaining his son's medical information (they claim Brown's wife
> gave them the info). Both meanings (obtaining something through deception
> and convincing someone disingenuously) appear in the OED under "blag",
> but are purely British. When "blag" and "blagging" shows up in US
> reporting on the scandal, it causes some head-scratching.
>
> VS-)



Dr M Lynne Murphy
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Director of English Language and Linguistics
School of English
Arts B348
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN

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