agony column?

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Anonymous:
Could I understand this way?
1. agony column - BrE
2. advice column - AmE
Thank you.
Hi,

As a Canadian, I hear 'advice column'. But the writer is commonly referred to by the slang term 'agony aunt'.

Clive
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Clive, you Canadians seemed to have combined the two expressions. Here in the U.S. we have advice columns written by advice columnists.
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Anonymous:
Both answers are really valuable to me. Thank you very much.