Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> This is a furfy that has been raised before and explained before.
Of course, as usual I misspelled it, the word is "furphy". I didn't
realise that it was an Australianism. It means more or less "a red
herring". Wikipedia says that it is a term particularly popular in
Australian politics, and as some people know my late father was a noted
practitioner of that art ;-)
cheers
andrew
