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So I just learnt the other day that apparently "busking" and "busker" are words that are not used (or at least exceedingly uncommon) in American English. I had no idea when I introduced this storyline in #4220. Instead, Americans use the terms "street performance" and "street performer".
American English seems to be the German of English dialects. Instead of inventing new words, it just rams together a bunch of pre-existing words, figuring the more syllables, the better.
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