Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:44:46 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <3685208E.DE0DD5F@uk.radan.com> References: <4.1.19981225064918.05738f10@127.0.0.1> <Your <4.1.19981224112052.05a31740@127.0.0.1> <4.1.19981224174155.03dd8670@127.0.0.1> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <4.1.19981225064918.05738f10@127.0.0.1> <4.1.19981225180656.05a34790@mail.lariat.org>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > At 02:19 AM 12/26/98 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > > >Bugger that. We just call them by their right name: chips. > > Which is the word Americans use for what you folks in Oz > and across the Deep Pond call "crisps." > > Never mind all the cognates for parts of cars, or > the one for those purse-like contraptions one wears > around one's waist. > > As I was reminded this summer as I wandered around the > UK on honeymoon, British and American are different > languages. And Australian, Irish, and Scottish > "English" are different still. ;-) > If you wandered around the North West of England where I'm from originally I hope that you didn't come across the expression "Can I bum a fag"[1], which has a *totally* different meaning to an American ;-) [1] "Can I borrow/scrounge a cigarette" > --Brett > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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