Nigel

Nigel
 n.— «That’s the kind of people these “Nigels”—the airline parlance for BA flight crews—are. They don’t panic because they’ve worked it all out beforehand.» —“Take notice of what Nigel does and you should be prepared for all eventualities” by Torcuil Crichton Sunday Herald (Glasgow, Scotland) Jan. 20, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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