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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Anyone else lose power just now?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

why is it footscray not feetcray

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Medial vowel shift probably

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Named after foots cray in the uk, which in turned got its name from being an area around the river Cray that belonged to godwin fot.

So why not fotscray

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Why Footscray and not craycray

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Oh it is craycray, but I wouldn’t eat any cray out of that river!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

already craycray need to add feet

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