Was US POA audio modified from UK or US print?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 95571

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "demetra1225" <tzakis1225 at n...> 
wrote:

Demetra:
> While I do agree with you about being able to figure out a word's 
> meaning based on the context in which it is used, this reminded me 
of 
> Steve's post about the use of the word "punting" in OOtP.  There is 
a 
> paragraph referring to the swamp that F&G created and the fact the 
> Umbridge had been unable to remove it.  It said that Filch had 
taken 
> to punting the students across the swamp.  Being the born and 
raised 
> in the Midwest American that I am, I immediately thought that Filch 
> was drop-kicking the students across the swamp.  Now, while it did 
> seem rather odd to me, Filch drop-kicking students across the swamp 
> does work in the context of that situation.  And it certainly works 
> in the context of Filch's personality. :)  It wasn't until Steve 
> explained in his post that I realized that punting meant taking the 
> students across the swamp in a boat or raft or something like that.

Geoff:
Punt can have the meaning of kicking a ball in UK English. Just for 
completeness, a punt is also a flat-bottomed rectangular boat 
propelled using a long pole. It tends today to be a leisure craft and 
is often associated with places like Oxford and Cambridge 
universities.