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   From: ygursey@gmail.com   
      
   On Sep 9, 7:19 am, choro  wrote:   
   > On 09/09/2012 11:16, Yusuf B Gursey wrote:   
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   > > On Sep 9, 2:35 am, Martin Edwards  wrote:   
   > >> On 08/09/2012 21:08, Yusuf B Gursey wrote:   
      
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   > >> thing is still common.  In the Brian de Palma film The Untouchables are   
   > >> working with the Chicago police, whereas they were formed precisely   
   > >> because the police were bent.  The character called "the Accountant" was   
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   > > in the US we say "crooked", is this Br. Eng.?   
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   > No Yusuf, it is NOT Br. Eng. but rather propr.Eng.;-)   
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   > Crooked means not straight, hence bent! --   
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   Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage   
   Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 04:51:32 -0700 (PDT)   
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   Subject: Re: crooked vs. bent   
   From: "Peter T. Daniels"    
      
   On Sep 9, 7:48=A0am, Yusuf B Gursey  wrote:   
   > in a post I heard the expression "the police were bent". here in the   
   > US I had always heard "the police were crooked" (never "bent"). is   
   > there here a difference between Br. Eng. and Am. Eng. or is it just my   
   > ignorance?   
      
   The only non-literal use of "bent" I know of is in the title of the   
   play *Bent*, where it is a euphemism for homosexuality in Nazi Berlin.   
   Whether the author took it from British usage or invented it, I do not   
   know.   
      
   (What is "alt.english.usage"?)   
      
      
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   > >> actually a tax inspector and did not work with them.  Pontius Pilate   
   anyone?   
      
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