Let's Catch Up - Did I Catch Your Attention?
English Like A Native Podcast
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Catch a Cold or Catch the Flu?
I don't think we have a professional rounders league in the UK I think it's just what you play for fun in schools and in America obviously baseball is a huge professional sport so when I was fielding for my rounders team at school I used to wait for someone to absolutely whack the ball. We say catch a cold but when we talk about the flu which is obviously a much more extreme virus flu is much worse than a cold we say the flu but a cold. There are probably hundreds if not thousands of cold viruses and I think this is why they haven't got a cure for the common cold because it's always mutating there's always so many variations of the cold.
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