11th July 2005, 11:44 AM
There I go WHAT? You called it British slang, which would suggest it's ONLY from there. I said it's used in America all the time too, so it's not exclusive. Where we got it from is irrelevent.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)