>>When I worked for another company, I worked with an English guy, and he once asked me to borrow a biro. I had no idea what he was talking about. Of course, we do the same thing here. 'Saran wrap' means any plastic food wrap. 'Kleenex' means any facial tissue. 'Scotch tape' is any cellophane tape. 'Hoover' is sometimes the same here, but depends probably on what you were raised with. In our family, we 'Electro-luxed' the floor.
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>I've never heard "hoover" as a verb from an American, though.
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>Tamar
Cos I guess to "hoover" in the US would be to do something nefarious via the FBI. :-)
- 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.
