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Downton Abbey - Odd Phrase??
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I don't watch the programme at all so couldn't name a single character, but they showed a clip the other day in which a male character stood up at a family meal to make a speech and he said something along the lines of " doing the lottery and having the winning ticket". Surely that sentence would have made no sense in that era??
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The English State Lottery was last drawn in 1826,not sure that was what was being referred to all those years later.
// The English State Lottery ran from 1694 until 1826. Thus, the English lotteries ran for over 250 years, until the government, under constant pressure from the opposition in parliament, declared a final lottery in 1826. This lottery was held up to ridicule by contemporary commentators as "the last struggle of the speculators on public credulity for popularity to their last dying lottery".//
// The English State Lottery ran from 1694 until 1826. Thus, the English lotteries ran for over 250 years, until the government, under constant pressure from the opposition in parliament, declared a final lottery in 1826. This lottery was held up to ridicule by contemporary commentators as "the last struggle of the speculators on public credulity for popularity to their last dying lottery".//
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