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Takoyaki-English Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

Tailback

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00In British English, a long line of cars that cannot move is a 01b00tailback02b00, isn't it?02br
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0Are you thinking of gridlock? When an intersection is so jammed that no one can move?0-
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0Grammar Geek,02br
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00The accident had caused a two mile (3.2 kilometre) 01b00tailback02b00 on the westbound carriageway, a police spokesman said at about 2100 GMT.02br
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0A tailback is a position in American football. I would be completely confused by that term in traffic. 02br
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00A two-mile backup.0-
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0Grammar Geek, thank you very much.0-
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0You are right that in British English it is tailback.0-
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0And now I know not to book a room with a cot for my third person and to avoid a road with a tailback. To think that I thought I had most of the vocabulary differences down by now!0-
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0nona the brit,02br
00Thank you for the comment.0-
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