Slowly assimilating.
Jan 16th 2012, 4:22 am
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Jan 16th 2012, 2:06 pm
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I have a comma problem
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Jan 16th 2012, 2:29 pm
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Re: Slowly assimilating.
OED 
parapet- a small animal that if thrown out of a high window will land on its feet.
parapet- a small animal that if thrown out of a high window will land on its feet.
Jan 16th 2012, 2:44 pm
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Re: Slowly assimilating.
It's the subtlety of British humor that sometimes throws me off.
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Jan 23rd 2012, 11:33 pm
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Re: Slowly assimilating.
The Restroom...doesn't that just conjure up the image of someone sitting on the crapper for anything up to an hour, legs up resting on the bog roll holder and sipping a glass of wine while flicking through the pages of Life magazine. It will always be the loo to me! ;-)
Jan 24th 2012, 7:55 pm
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Re: Slowly assimilating.
My co-workers were on the Aluminium / Aluminum thing yesterday. I explained that not only do we say it correctly but we also spell it correctly. Then went on to rip them about the over use of the letter Z ... I still reckon they only spell that way to get higher points in scrabble.
After nearly 11 years I do say trunk , trash, gas but I still call a tomarto a tomarto :P
After nearly 11 years I do say trunk , trash, gas but I still call a tomarto a tomarto :P
Jan 24th 2012, 8:36 pm
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Jan 24th 2012, 9:41 pm
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Re: Slowly assimilating.
well when we are in the UK and in a department store I say to my husband, I need to go to the toilet, in this country I would say rest room. I call petrol- gas, it's easier, could never say tomato the US way, in fact hate having to ask where the tomato paste is in a store cos I sound so foreign (well Scottish), say water with a "t", do spell out z as in zee cos that's what they do and honestly now zed sounds silly, spell their way too cos I am in a college course, but make a point of amending spelling in emails/facebook to UK friends, but sure that will change as it will get too much hassle to keep changing.
Jan 24th 2012, 9:49 pm
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Jan 24th 2012, 9:53 pm
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Jan 24th 2012, 10:01 pm
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