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[Liam Fisher]

I found this at:
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/~sfgva/ukus/ukus_tex.htm

>At long last, here is the complete list of Anglo-American confusions as
>promised in my last post. The definitions have been cross referenced with
>the most recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary, and the Hutchinson
>British-American Dictionary, so if you don't agree with some of my
>definitions take up the argument with them (unless I say otherwise in
>the text.)  I have made a few alterations, additions and removals
>too...

>183) Codswallop.  In the 1870's Hiram Codd patented a particular shape of
>bottle suitable for containing fizzy lemonade(qv).  Wallop is slang for
>beer; hence British beer-drinkers came to call very weak beer 'Codd's
>Wallop'.  It is used nowadays to describe anything without real substance.
>Hence, the title of my Web Page 'What a load of codswallop, pet!' means
>'What a load of rubbish, friend!'  Self-depreciating humour - don'tcha
>just love it?


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