At 09:51 PM 3/9/2000 , ==David-M== wrote: >Yes, lets all 'celebrate our cultural diversity'. And I vote we start by >spelling tire correctly as tyre. Lessee -- Aluminum as aluminium Duralumin as Duraluminium (?) Trunk as boot Wheel as roadwheel Sidewalk as pavement Curb as kerb Choke as strangler Vacuum as depression Venturi as choke Hood as bonnet Large hole in the wall as air brick 350 degrees F as Mark 3 (or some such) Ice as "you get one little cube" or sometimes as "what's that?" Robin (American) as "bloody great thrush" 75 degrees F as "blazing hot" Chumley as Cholmondeley Sales tax as VAT Cipher as cypher Zero as nought Tic-tac-toe as noughts and crosses Bottomless money pit as British Steel Peas and carrots mixed as "two veg" Chips (potato) as crisps (or sometimes chips) Weird soft drink as "Irn Bru" Really tasty sweetish ginger beer as ginger beer (but they could lose the "artificial cloud") Lemonade as lemon squash Lemon soda (sort of) as lemonade Lemon soda mixed with beer as shandy Bland and usually tasteless sausage as banger Really vile-tasting sausage as hot dog Mixture of fizzy water, comminuted oranges, saccharin sodium as "Panda" (gah) Superior, character-driven TV comedy with genuine actors as quite ordinary How'm I doing? <g> david David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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