<Asa Lovejoy>
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I just read an article on the BBC. The article refered to a "tannoy system." Would one of you UK denizens care to explain what that is? |
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| A PA (public-address) system. See this Wikipedia article. An example of a genericized trademark.
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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<Asa Lovejoy>
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Ahhh, thanks. I assumed it to be "sunburn" in Yiddish. |
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