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

[Linda Rouse]

Try the FWSE  (Famous Web Search Engine) as New Scientist calls it.

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&hl=en&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=my+bad&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images

The Mavens' Word of the Day
The exclamation My bad! is an apologetic way of saying 'My fault! ... 
Some people nominated My bad! as a candidate for 1999 "Word of the 
Year," an ...
www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20000111 - 8k - Cached - 
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best
Linda

At 3:01 PM +1100 2/3/07, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>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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