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ecocks
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| MELEE wrote: |
| Kiwi is also the nickname for New Zealander. I would assume that the school in question was run by a person from New Zealand (which has quite a lot to do with English) and I wouldn't think it was funny at all. Not any more so than a school called American English. |
A better, closer comparison would be the Yankee School of English. I would see American, New Zealand, Australian, Canadian, etc. School of English as pretty normal. In Kyiv, I am always amused by the DNA School of English? A genetic research project perhaps? |
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TRUBADOUR
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I got a few gigles from this ine, a chain:
TOSS ENGLISH
mb you have to have been a british schoolboy where 'toss' is a verb meaning masturbate!
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Girl Scout
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Location: Inbetween worlds
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| ...I wouldn't think it was funny at all. Not any more so than a school called American English. |
I worked at a school called American English Academy in Taiwan. |
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