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After seeing Adrian and Erins avatar, I think all of the QLD section should upload their very own Harrow councillor for the rest of the week...they're just gold!

http://www2.harrow.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.asp

Go for it!

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just a quick question, why do all the seppos say torni-ket as opposed to torni-kay? (Torniquet) Hell the chick in evanescence even butchers it more. Sounds like turnih-ket which isn't even close.

 

 Chris.... I'm looking in your direction.

funny you should mention that as I have been watching a doco on the Abc for the last 5 weeks called "Lost Worlds" and it has been about the formation of the English language.

Did you know that when the Pilgrim fathers in America in 1620 they took great efforts to maintain the purity of the language they spoke. They borrowed relatively little from the natives, and the regional accents of the early settlers blended t

Later, Scots and the Irish added their influence. As English spread across the North American continent, it also started to move away from the language spoken in England.

At the end of the 18th century and in the early 19th century Noah Webster's Book of American Spelling standardised spelling across the United States. As settlers went west, new words and phrases developed, while African slaves introduced elements of their own native languages into the vernacular.

However I am sure I have heard Americans pronounce tourniquet correctly and if it is being mispronounced you can't rule out that the speaker is just poorly educated.

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