Originally Posted By nputtick
septic, sceptic


Point of Order, chairman

Septic isn't an alternate spelling of sceptic, it's Cockney rhyming slang for Americans "Septic Tank" = Yank.

I've only ever heard it used by Jeremy Clarkson, and then subsequently by people on Pistonheads, who presumably find it amusing and don't realise that Clarkson is satirising them.


Tim H.
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