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Untangling Multiple Meanings in the English Language in the Courts
There’s a joke by British TV comedian Benny Hill that Americans usually don’t get. Hill is dressed up as an irate mother talking to the school headmaster who says her son is always absent and now he’s boozing. Hill insists that there are 40 pubs in town, and Johnny hasn’t been in one of them. The headmaster says, “Oh, yes, which one’s that?”