>>>>Well I've found a cheese here where there's a warning "contains milk".
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>>That's unusual for US cheese, isn't it? Usually made of plastic from what I've been told. :-)
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>Not really plastic, it wouldn't stick to the knife so much. Must be something else.
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>>>I once had a tire manometer where instructions had 14 steps. Step 1: unscrew the cap from the tire valve. ... step 14: screw the cap on the tire valve.
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>>You call them tyre manometer? We just say pressure guage.
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>I just typed manometer to see whether the spell checker would accept it. It is a manometer, and that's what we call it back home, but you're right, nobody calls it that here. Funny, though, nobody calls odometer "revolution gauge",

No, nut we say trip meter (for the trip odo) and mileometer for the main (or just "clock" as in "this is not genuine mileage. Someone's put the clock back"

>or thermometer "temperature gauge",

They do! In the films when they tap the glass to check the needle isn't stuck - that would be a temp. guage (yes I know they do it to altimeters and such too)

>or yardstick "longitude gauge".

But no one says "yardstick" in its original sense (who uses one?) except in the sense: "His treatise is a yardstick for us to run our lives by"