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From: Gary Holden (gaholden@waitrose.com)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 09:54:29 GMT

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    BBC News 24 just reported:

    "The Turkish win over co-hosts Japan...."

    (I think it went on something like "...means that Turkey will face Senegal
    in the quarter finals".)

    My first reaction was, "What are they on about? Turkey aren't the co-hosts,
    South Korea are."

    It took a few moments before I figured out the alternative interpretation.

    There should be an interesting RT account of this but I'm too rusty to come
    up with it at the moment!

    Gary



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