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Thanks guys, but to get back to the thread, am I not correct in assuming from my Googling that this usage is either obsolete or almost exclusively offshore
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Define offshore  It's a Britspeak, Dale. Pure and simple. We don't have red tops here in the US, at least not in newspapers.
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Yup. These are the types that fry men's soles.
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(as noted above) even the OED says "Brit. .. Brit."
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*golf clap*
A social disease contracted in club-houses?
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tsu: Yes thank you, from my Googling results thought it might. More to the point, however, if you're a leftponder having extensive contact the Mother Tongue, do you consider the usage common over here
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*golf clap*
A social disease contracted in club-houses?
More likely from teeing off in front of the clubhouse. I'd not heard the term before and figured it was an understated round of applause that's apparently typical at golf tournaments.
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>do you consider the usage common over here
never heard (of) it before this thread.
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tsu: Neither had I, and that was another reason for the thread, one reason for which was to help validate the technique suggested by the two Googlings. A ratio of 40:1 appears to be an almost certain indication, as TEd confirms
Unless of course the base figures are much larger, as reflected in a ratio of say 12 million to 300,000, in which case one might suspect it has caught on leftpondwise as well
I find as a rule of thumb that less than 276 onshore hits brands an expression as not current nor widespread
These criteria are of course subject to adjustment by extended verification and hence the need for additional followups--my most hearty thanks, all
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