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Old 08-Oct-2006, 11:33
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Default Re: The variety of English

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Originally Posted by Mariner View Post
fag mainly in BrE
=cigarette <INFORMAL>
I read a complaint from an American who had learned this term before going to the UK and arrived to find that tab was the term in use, a northern term that was popularised in the south by the magazine Viz.
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