Kasia Gulko

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There is a story (apocryphal?) about a Yorkshireman who, drawing up at a level crossing in his car, saw the sign ‘Wait while the red light flashes’ and, when the light flashed, crossed and was crushed by an oncoming train. In Yorkshire while can mean ‘until’.4
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
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