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Americans - Pains in the Neck
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27/09/2005 11:57:27
 
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Politics
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Thread ID:
01052007
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>>Yeah, I figured that. But I'm now not sure that you realised your reference to a golden arch coupled with the mention of MacDonald's :-)
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>That was intentional.
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>>As for a onesie - we just refer to them as baby vests.
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>You Brits have a word for everything. We can't call them vest, since that is what cowboys wear. Howdy partner.

No, we have a DIFFERENT word for everything. What a cowboy (well ... the sherrif) wears is a "waistcoat" (but I guess, in defference to the Wild West, we'd call those leather things vests), the sleeveless (shoulder strap thing - like Bruce Willis wears in "Die Hard") undershirt we call a vest (or singlet).

Pants are usually underpants or drawers or knickers but, where I come from, pants also refer to trousers, as in N. America.

Hey, you wanna enumerate the differences in almost any word to do with vehicles or roads:

intersection - junction; construction - road works; on-ramp/off-ramp - sliproad/exit sliproad; meridian - central reserve; shoulder - hard shoulder

Windshield - windscreen, stick-shift - gear stick; stick-shift (operation mode) - manual; trunk - boot; hood - bonnet; detailing - valeting; vehicle tag - number plate; dash - dashboard; transmission - gearbox?; meeeeeerrr - mirror :-), et al, et al
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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