WRITES the BBC’s man in Italy: “The putrid problem of Italian politics
“There has been much public soul-searching and wringing of hands by politicians of all parties since the garbage men gave up collecting rubbish in Naples just before Christmas”
Indeed - “garbage men“. Not dustmen. Not even refuge disposal engineers. But “garbage”.
Are we now speaking American English?
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