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According to my beaten up old (1970) dictionary the word MTW was after is :
quote:
baloney, boloney n. (Slang) misleading talk; humbug; nonsense [etym. unknown]
Bologna is a city in Italy which is pronounced quite differently
You do get the meat over here (and we do pronounce it like you guys) but it's nowhere near as common/popular as in the States. As far as I know we don't get Oscar Mayer products here (yet), so unless Mike has spent time in the US he was probably sat there thinking WTF ?
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