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Date:      Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:11:13 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws)
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981225180656.05a34790@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <19981226021926.65101@welearn.com.au>
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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. ;-)

--Brett



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