In article <1e7fy0pe1ubul.eer3w7rxrjvk.dlg@40tude.net>,
"Mike....." wrote:
> Following up to erilar
>
> >>> English is diverging geographically, anyway.
> >>
> >> I wonder if that is being halted a bit by world communications?
> >
> > Well, not on the internet where our differing pronunciations don't show
> > 8-)
>
> but where we learn each others vocabulary, after years chatting to
> americans here I find myself acting as go between in matters like biscuits
> and fanny packs.
Biscuits are confusing. And cider in the UK is very different for
someone from Wisconsin 8-)
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Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)
You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov
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