19 Jul
2006
19 Jul
'06
4:07 p.m.
Warning--very, very OT:
On 7/19/2006 at 11:42 PM Jules Richardson wrote:
Similar languages can be fun...
Thankfully, languages evolve. Over the years, I've noted the gradually
increasing use of "vacation" for "holiday" on the BBC. Now, if you
folks
could learn to spell... :)
My aunt and her family used to refer to the refrigerator as the "icebox".
It made no difference to them that the iceman hadn't cometh for several
decades. Who keeps gloves in their auto's glove compartment/glovebox?
Do the Brits refer to an act of sabotage as "throwing gas grips into the
works"?
Cheers,
Chuck