Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:49:44 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greetings, Earthlings! Take me to your Jordan. (Re: Greetings from San Francisco Downtown) Message-ID: <19990901204944.B20A8A0@woodstock.monkey.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 18:34:14 BST." <19990901183414.F283@marder-1>
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In message <19990901183414.F283@marder-1>, Mark Ovens wrote: } Greetings from the ground (US:first) floor of my house in Chippenham, England ``Ground floor'' is also in common use in the US. Saying ``ground floor'' will confuse very few people here, whereas the phrase ``knocked me up'' has a completely different meaning here and may get you either blank stares or gasps of astonishment :) -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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