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Posted by Merk

July 9th, 2009

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14 Comments

  1. Ed

    I was always taught that the British spelling of that word was “gaol”. Clearly Daily Mail journalists are as ignorant as their readers.

  2. johnnyh

    Can I be the first to question the use of the word ‘hilariously’ in the top banner.

  3. Fruitbat

    I’ve always spelt it ‘jail’ and have rarely seen the spelling ‘gaol’, so I guess it’s one of those grey areas where both are acceptable.

  4. Original Paul

    How about Prison?

  5. James Farrier

    Fear not; Mail readers will be referring to it as the Nig Brig.

  6. Mail Man

    Typical barbaric DM logic at work.

    Dammit!
    Why do we need to play the slightest bit of attention to what sort of hellish and barbaric circumstances we might be extraditing prisoners to?
    Why should we care if they get tortured or held in inhumane conditions?
    They’re foreign.
    They’re prisoners.

    Blah blah blah

  7. Antigherkin

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaol

  8. Moggie

    Thanks to a nice Nigerian gentleman who contacted me via email, I will soon be a few million pounds richer, so I may be able to help out with this.

  9. Kiz

    I bet DM readers love that story in the column on the right there-tits and a nasty death. Their favourite combination.

    As for the jail/gaol debate on here, from my knowledge, gaol was the word for a prison in the middle ages but now, it’s spelt jail and has been for the past couple of hundred years.

  10. Matt Hurst

    Being on the frontcover of the daily mail?

  11. Billy

    From what I recall, using the “jail” spelling originates from Monopoly.

  12. Shafiq

    Imagine what the headline would have been if they stayed in Britain to serve out their sentence here.

    Or, what the headline would have been if a British citizen was found guilty of a crime in Nigeria and kept in those conditions.

    A lose-lose-lose situation

  13. Doreen

    The use of “jail” is yet another example of the pernicious American dialect eroding the once-great ENGLISH language!

  14. NickPheas

    So we have a choice: Spend £1m, once, on allowing us to shlep these buggers back home or…
    Spend £12.3m per year keeping them here.

    It is indeed shocking and appalling that this Zanu Leibour dictatorship could consider spending money in this way.

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