[LMB] Football on Barrayar [Was: Sports on Barrayar]

[James Burbidge]

On 01/10/06, John Campbell Rees <jwcr at gardd-lelog.org.uk> wrote:
> I am replying to email message
> <20061001230253.60553.qmail at web50010.mail.yahoo.com>,
>  in which you wrote:
>
> > British influence?  I see no British influence.
> >
> In "Dreamweaver's Dilemma" the USA is pretty much still messed up
> after a World War, so so I assumed  that early space settlement using
> wormhole technology was acheived by European, Latin American and
> Australasian countries. Given that, and the fact that the other three
> of the four official languages of Barrayar Russian, French and Greek
> are European, I always assumed that source of the fourth, English
> would be British (European) English as opposed to American (World)
> English.
>

There are indications that it is -- like the use of the term "boffins"
which turns up from time to time.

James