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Council/counsel

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Ownteethandhair · 16/10/2013 16:00

Could I just point out to anyone who is considering seeing a counsellor for counselling to help with their personal problems that they will not meet a councillor or other local government representative. (Hope nobody from 'Relationships' reads PC). Grin

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ohmymimi · 16/10/2013 19:52

Whoops, better cancel the appointment then. Thought it was funny we were meeting in County Hall.

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chateauferret · 25/01/2014 00:25

Am always amused that the administrative body in an old Soviet republic was a council called a "soviet" (stress on second syllable), which means "counsel" in Russian.

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