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Subject:	Re: Job specific titles for train and rail crew
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:01:31 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jim Schifeling writes: > I'm gonna bet the "knocker up" is a mostly UK term as well. > I think it would elicit snickers from grown men in the US Actually, I heard it from a Aussie...you just have to remember, that the word use is ~50 years out of date. How many people would name the "gay" 90's like that now? (1890's...) James P

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		Re: Job specific titles for train and rail crew
(...) I've never hear "knocker up", but the phrase "knock 'er up" has a couple of meanings in Aus - first to build something quickly, as in to "knock up a shed in the back yard". It's other meaning is related to procreation, and I won't spell it out (...) (23 years ago, 25-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: Job specific titles for train and rail crew
I'm gonna bet the "knocker up" is a mostly UK term as well. I think it would elicit snickers from grown men in the US (23 years ago, 24-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)

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