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Malc2098 wrote:
Don't get me started!
Phil Pascoe wrote:Quite a bit less than 100mm if they're shaped.
Andyp wrote:Much to my disgust, since moving here most of the english teachers my girls have had were/are American.
Causes no end of fun.
Cabinetman wrote:My American and I are both word nuts, delight in finding new ones. Doesn’t happen as often as you might imagine! Surprisingly we don’t argue about English /American differences.
Cabinetman wrote:None taken, I soon learnt to use the appropriate word depending where I am.
Still at least three times a week I have to ask her to rewind and slow down, it’s the waiters rattling off the specials in restaurants that get me every time! And some of those restaurants can be so up themselves with regard to ingredients, and I’m sure they make a lot of things up, I shall have to keep a diary- maybe a video one so y’all can enjoy it! Ian
RogerS wrote:'Home ripening' gets me. I've yet to find any fruit that actually ripens in the home.
Woodbloke wrote:RogerS wrote:'Home ripening' gets me. I've yet to find any fruit that actually ripens in the home.
Green toms from the greenhouse eventually turn red on a sunny window sill - Rob
RogerS wrote:I do recall when at a sales kick-off in America, us Brits had a competition to see who could go into the local deli sandwich shop and specify the sandwich in such detail that the server had no more options to offer. It took us three days IIRC.
RogerS wrote:'Home ripening' gets me. I've yet to find any fruit that actually ripens in the home.
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