>Hilmar
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>Prior to WWII, Coventry was a nice cathedral town in the UK countryside. It was also a major manufacturing town. In WWII The Luftwaffe decided they did not like Coventry.
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>The city has since been rebuilt. Suffice to say that for many years, "giving coventry" was a slang term with the obvious meaning.
OK, thanks for the information.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
