[Ads-l] "the trots (a British colloquialism for diarrhea)"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Mar 17 19:18:59 UTC 2015
- Kenan Malik in the NYT
Isn't "trots" used in the relevant meaning not only here, but also pretty
much anywhere else that English is spoken?
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-Wilson
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