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Old July 11, 2009, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by irmamar View Post
Is the colour of the uniform which gives the name to the collar? I mean, here a mechanic, for instance, wears a blue uniform, I guess there is the same. Years before, office workers used to wear white shirts. Maybe the collar name also comes from the old collars which weren't sewed to the shirt.
Yes, originally, that is where the terms came from.

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Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo View Post
First, I need to know What does fairly mean?
"... oversimplification, but fairly accurate"
"... una simplificación, pero más o menos (medianamente) acertada"

fairly
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