Date:         Fri, 10 Mar 2000 04:58:30 -0500
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: Cultural Diversity
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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
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