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>>>>Also, we don't want to go into a bar and order a couple of draughts only to be brought a game board and some checkers.
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>>>Just like we have to beware of going into a tobacconist over there and ordering a "packet of fags" :-)
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>>LOL - Excellent!
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><g> Plus, of course you know that an eraser over here is called a rubber?

That's what we called them when I was in about grade 1 here.

What I find interesting is brand names that have become all but generic names for a product. For example, hardly anyone says 'tissue'. Everybody just says 'Kleenex', even if the tissue is a Scotties or some other. Again, nobody really says 'plastic wrap', it's all just 'Saran Wrap'.

I used to work with a British guy who once threw me off by asking if he could borrow a 'Byro'. I checked myself over and then told him I must have left it in my other suit. That's when he told me it's a ball-point pen.

Another is 'Scotch Tape' instead of maybe 'transparent tape'.