[Lexicog] Juggernaut (was: The English (was Naming the Beautiful Game ..)

[Fritz Goerling]

John,

Good that Germany and England don't face each other in the next round of the
World Cup. Otherwise the psychological warfare between the English and
German tabloids would have begun already. I always get a kick about a
typical headline of  "The Sun" like "The Huns are coming" or "The German
juggernaut." But the German tabloid "Bild" always answers in kind.

Where does the word juggernaut come from? Is it more used in British English
than in other varieties of English?

Fritz


John Roberts wrote:


The Flanders and Swan comic song about the English being better than all the

rest acclaims the fact that the English are not like johnny foreigner who 
all have ways inferior to the English. 
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"The English the English the English are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest"

John Roberts 

 

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