Re: [school-discuss] EFL (was: MS/free software)

[Rasjid Wilcox <rasjidw@openminddev.net>]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 9:50 pm, Richard Smedley wrote:
> Leon Brooks wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 17:23, Richard Smedley wrote:
> > > And thanks from the EFL crowd, who don't all speak colloquial
> > > American English ;-)
> >
> > Hi from Perth, Western Australia. :-P
>
> America
> Australia
> They both begin and end in 'a' - do you really
> expect me to worry about the fine details ;-P
>
> So is 'peanut gallery' of Australian origin then??
> Or imported from the USA?
>

A quick google reveals:
http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-pea1.htm

Looks like an Americanism to me.

Rasjid from Canberra, Australia.