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Norwegians using 'Texas' to mean 'crazy' actually isn't so crazy

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imageA Spanish street performer dressed as a cowboy. Europeans have long been fascinated with the American West.Juanedc.com/flickr, CC BY

If you haven’t heard by now, the American press recently picked up on an interesting linguistic phenomenon in Norway, where the word “Texas” is slang for “crazy.”

Indeed, it turns out that...

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