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11.8.19, Nagoya: I would dearly love to meet the dictionary that thinks ‘wicket’ is a good description of a ticket barrier https://ift.tt/2Z3ChWd

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Date: 2019-09-03 02:05 am (UTC)
monksandbones: A .gif of the borg, with rotating captions referencing excessive Canadian politeness and bilingual phone menus (canadianborg)
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Possibly North American? I would probably call both a ticket barrier and a ticket sales window, and also the niche where a bank teller sits, a wicket! In the Canadian context, I wonder if the usage of "wicket" is connected to to the usage of "guichet" for all of the above in Canadian French (plus for bank machines)?

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