[LINK] Re: Link Digest, Vol 172, Issue 5

Ivan Trundle ivan at itrundle.com
Fri Mar 2 15:01:41 AEDT 2007


On 02/03/2007, at 12:25 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:

> Stilgherrian wrote:
>> On 2/3/07 11:26 AM, "Stewart Fist" <stewart_fist at optusnet.com.au>  
>> wrote:
>>>   And I don't know how Aspirin (a German invention) came to be  
>>> listed as an
>>> Australian invention.  I guess we are getting Russianised or  
>>> Americanized.
>> Aspirin was a German invention, yes. Aspro, i.e. aspirin-in-a- 
>> tablet, was
>> the Australian thing.
>
> OK, my bad...

Can a Linker with more communicative teenager offspring tell me what  
'my bad' means, and its origins?

iT



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