Matches and accelerant. Progress, innit? Bear in mind that the inhabitants of that fair city have become used to playing the victim card and it's always someone else to blame.
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scumbags
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WTF does it mean?
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It's an affectation from Jimbo's time on the Amateur Radio group...
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oh right
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easy... they trash what is not theirs ...
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heard it on the air from European stations many times...many times many many many times.....I didn't make it up
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For example I live in the near of Glasgow...not in it
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More simply expressed as "I live near Glasgow", Shirley?
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Yes but it's a calque of the German "In der Nähe von...", which you will sometimes hear from the minority of German radio amateurs whose English is not perfect.
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spot on
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And an excellent word it is, too. It's very rarely heard outwith Scotland - or indeed, furth (sic) of the country.