>>>>Paying the bills and opening other official looking mail from the past week, I just got a smile from this one. It is from the U.S. Census Bureau and warmly addressed to "TO RESIDENT AT...." Wait, it gets better. This is not the new census form, which I have read will be much less time consuming than earlier ones. No, this is just a heads up. Here is the beginning:
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>>>>"Dear Resident:
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>>>>"About one week from now, you will receive a 2010 Census form in the mail. When you receive your form, please fill it out and mail it in promptly."
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>>>This mean you're supposed to try it on and, if it doesn't fit, put on weight till you do?
>>>In UK we fill IN forms.
>>>
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>>"Fill out" is fine here. We all know there are lots of small usage differences like this. "In hospital" vs. "in the hospital," for example.
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>>There are even differences within the U.S. In most of the country we get in line. In New York they get on line. You join a queue.
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>And the Germans cut *in* line ( okay that will be my last ethnic stereotype of the morning unless some drunken Irish man picks a fight with me ... )

They're probably all in recovery mode today ;-)