Re: Issues in Informix - a little bit OT

"Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:3EC5D969.9010305@earthlink.net... > *** Just occasionally, the Meriam-Webster online dictionary reveals > its American roots - it has no clue about a googly (though the print > version of Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has it). The Chambers > Dictionary online version knows about it. It is nothing whatsoever to > do with a certain search engine, either, though said search engine > also comes up with the right answer in the number 2 spot! It my be Australian. The Australians also do not generally use the word googly to describe the leg spinner's "wrong" ball, which spins from off to leg instead of leg to off. When I was young they called it the Bosie, after the English cricketer BJT Boasanquet (an ancestor of former ITN newsreader and renowned drunk Reggie) who invented the technique. But whenever I hear Shane Warne, arguably the greatest ever exponent of leg-spin and still only in his early-to-mid 30s, talk he always refers to the delivery as his "wrong 'un".