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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Rightpondia en · PROPN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From right (“east”) + pond (“Atlantic Ocean”) + -ia. Apparently from the Usenet newsgroup alt.usage.english circa 1997. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_frm/thread/f0a61071e7d33b56

Meanings

  1. (slang) The British Isles.
    • One difference between Rightpondia and Leftpondia is that Arpudlians go 'to hospital' and Elpudlians go 'to the hospital'. 2003 October 30, tomcatpolka@yaNOSPAMhoo.com, “to Rightpondia”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
    • I wonder how I would go about getting something similar over here in Rightpondia. 2003 December 14, Maggie Davey , “Re: Glucose Tolerance Test”, in alt.support.diabetes.uk (Usenet):

Deriveds

Rightpondian

Relateds

Leftpondia