watford gap
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "New Yorkers, who don't really go anywhere ever, are the worst offenders. They think anything north of New York is Bridgeport. Bridgeport, Connecticut is the Watford Gap of America."
- "This collection may not bridge the Watford Gap, but any joshing at the expense of our southern cousins is good-natured and laughter-lovers from both sides of the divide are welcomed."
- "And, before light sabres, Sith Lords and Ewan McGregor's accent wandering to the other side of the Watford Gap from which he was born spring to mind, note that it is likely that George Lucas borrowed the concept."
- "She was barely in her twenties, skinny, with a black Helen Shapiro semibeehive that was in need of fresh backcombing. She spoke with an accent he couldn't place, apart from it originating north of the Watford Gap."
Subject
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