@drewnogal saidWe called it "the dole" since WW2, before that there was no welfare system. People in jobs paid voluntarily into "friendly societies" which coughed up small amounts if you were too sick to work. They eventually turned into health insurers and superannuation payers if they lasted long enough. Our first government welfare in the 1930s was bare food cost called "sustenance" and was enough to provide turnips and potatoes and soup, but nothing else.
I got it every 4 weeks when I worked for social services as a ‘temporary domestic’. Dreadful job! I got 3 weeks work then had to ‘sign on’ for every 4th so I never accumulated any holiday pay. That’s why I always remember my national insurance number.
We just called them Giros.
I'd better offer another word which has worldwide meaning then.
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@kewpie saidCan I have another clue?
We called it "the dole" since WW2, before that there was no welfare system. People in jobs paid voluntarily into "friendly societies" which coughed up small amounts if you were too sick to work. They eventually turned into health insurers and superannuation payers if they lasted long enough. Our first government welfare in the 1930s was bare food cost called "sustenance" an ...[text shortened]... se.
I'd better offer another word which has worldwide meaning then.
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Got it!
CATARACT
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@kewpie saidSPORADIC was right, and this is....
I'm not at all sure it's right, but until we hear otherwise ...
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CATAPULT
*E**E*O*
Someone keeping all the privet?
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@indonesia-phil saidHEDGEHOG
SPORADIC was right, and this is....
CATAPULT
*E**E*O*
Someone keeping all the privet?
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Two dozen legs walked here.
@drewnogal saidIt's not quarantine (10 letters) or submarine (not clue); 12 bipeds or 6 quadrupeds could be a squad of some sort on a parade ground, or a group on a trek, but I'm getting nowhere so far.
HEDGEHOG
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Two dozen legs walked here.