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Was listening to NPR news this morning..........
and knew that I was listening to a BBC newscast, not because of the British accents, but rather because the word "nappies" was used in two reports within a 5 minute span.
The first was about a country in South America, I want to say Brazil, but not sure, where both milk and nappies were scarce.
The second was about a city in Africa that was going to be giving out nappies for the owners of mules and donkeys, so that the city streets would be clean.
Leave it to the Brits to get the word nappies into news reports,
