: [LMB] OT: Fire in the Wellington CBD

[Elizabeth Holden]

Andrew wrote:

> >CBD is certainly not a USianism.  It might be
> British, as it strikes
> >me as being fairly harmonious with what I have
> heard of their
> >Government phrases.  I was familiarized with it
> mostly from my time in New Zealand.

I've only heard it once or twice in my life, always in
connection with New Zealand.

namaste,
Elizabeth
who didn't know what it meant till she got an
explanation