15-08-2020, 09:31 PM
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Re: Had You Ever Heard Of, Or Used The Word ‘Lockdown’ Before Covid -19?
Originally Posted by AnnieS
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It's hard to remember about lockdown, but I've just realised I've been confusing furlough with "furlong" from horse racing!
Did you think people had been told to race about? The "final furlong" sounds ominous! I'm glad it was furlough.
15-08-2020, 09:33 PM
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Re: Had You Ever Heard Of, Or Used The Word ‘Lockdown’ Before Covid -19?
Originally Posted by rhosyn
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On the Pointless tv program if two of the teams have the same score then the term lockdown is used,that's the only other time I've heard the word.
15-08-2020, 10:10 PM
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Re: Had You Ever Heard Of, Or Used The Word ‘Lockdown’ Before Covid -19?
Originally Posted by TessA
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Did you think people had been told to race about? The "final furlong" sounds ominous! I'm glad it was furlough.
16-08-2020, 08:14 AM
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Re: Had You Ever Heard Of, Or Used The Word ‘Lockdown’ Before Covid -19?
Originally Posted by AnnieS
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The grass on a racecourse must have created a crossed wire to gardening leave in my head! Or maybe it was about throwing money about like there's no tomorrow.
16-08-2020, 11:16 AM
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Re: Had You Ever Heard Of, Or Used The Word ‘Lockdown’ Before Covid -19?
Originally Posted by mart
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I've heard furlough mentioned in American films. I think when referring to leave from the armed services.
I was going through some old documents after Mum and Dad passed away and there was a letter to my grandad from his officer in command after the first world war.
The letter thanked my grandad for his loyal service and said he would continue to be 'Furloughed' after he had been demobbed....The letter was dated 1918....
So the word has been around quite some time.
16-08-2020, 02:46 PM
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Re: Had You Ever Heard Of, Or Used The Word ‘Lockdown’ Before Covid -19?
I had never heard "being made redundant" or "redundancy" in the way you all use it in relation to work. Unfortunately, we just use the word and the practice of "furloughing".It just goes to show that in shouting things back and forth over the Atlantic (rarely, "across the pond"), some things are lost in translation.
16-08-2020, 02:58 PM
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Re: Had You Ever Heard Of, Or Used The Word ‘Lockdown’ Before Covid -19?
Originally Posted by Surfermom
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I had never heard "being made redundant" or "redundancy" in the way you all use it in relation to work. Unfortunately, we just use the word and the practice of "furloughing".It just goes to show that in shouting things back and forth over the Atlantic (rarely, "across the pond"), some things are lost in translation.
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