Google, champing at the bit
Nathan Vaillette reports in e-mail on 3/31/05, re my posting "Chomping
at the font", that...
When searching for "champing at the
bit":
- google.de asks
Meinten Sie: "camping at the bit"
- google.fr suggests
Essayez avec cette orthographe :
"chomping at the bit"
- google.es opines
Quizas quiso decir "champaign at
the bit"
- google.it theorizes
Forse cercavi: "champion at the
bit"
However, google.com is willing to believe that's what you
mean.
"Champaign"? As in Champaign-Urbana? I was hoping for
champagne, at least from google.fr. Meanwhile, in Italy, it
seems, we are the champions.
[And now (4/1/05) the report from Finland: Pekka Karjalainen e-mails to say that (unsurprisingly, to me, anyway) neither google.fi nor google.se offered anything at all for the odd "chomping at the font", but when he tried google.de, he got "chomping at the front". German Google seems willing to give most anything a try.]
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Posted by Arnold Zwicky at March 31, 2005 01:49 PM