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Jan 31st 2010 | 2:24 pm

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lisa67

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Originally Posted by elfman

love the Samuel Pepys quote on that page:

October 23, 1660:
...going down into my cellar, I put my foot into a great heap of turds, by which I find Mr Turner's house of office is full and comes into my cellar.

yeah...good visual eh??

Jan 31st 2010 | 2:36 pm

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I will be honest here and say that it took a while for me not to also think that displaying prices of even mundane items like groceries without including the tax was "flamingly retarded". Now I'm just used to it.

Shopping in England now feels like a real bargain as there's nothing extra to pay at the till

Jan 31st 2010 | 2:46 pm

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Shopping in England now feels like a real bargain as there's nothing extra to pay at the till

No sales tax in Oregon.
You pay what the ticket says.

Jan 31st 2010 | 2:48 pm

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No sales tax in Oregon.
You pay what the ticket says.

Wow - it's 9.75% here.

Jan 31st 2010 | 2:53 pm

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Wow - it's 9.75% here.

Did I mention we're broke...

One of the last states with no sales tax, so income tax is king.

Jan 31st 2010 | 3:01 pm

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Originally Posted by meauxna

Did I mention we're broke...

One of the last states with no sales tax, so income tax is king.

NH has you beat...they make up for it in property tax

Feb 1st 2010 | 12:16 am

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Originally Posted by Sally Redux

There are more baby words - panty

'go potty'

kitty, bunny...

Ha! That's something that always struck me about the English English... "Pressies" as an example.

Feb 1st 2010 | 12:35 am

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Right children! I'm starting work on the dictionary today. Should have something to show for it by tomorrow.

I'll keep you posted.

Feb 1st 2010 | 12:59 am

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Originally Posted by another bloody yank

Ha! That's something that always struck me about the English English... "Pressies" as an example.

I would say pressies is more of a shortening of presents than a 'babying' of the word.

Feb 1st 2010 | 1:26 am

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Is a "cloth" book a hardback? I've occasionally seen books available as "paperback or cloth". Or is it some form of combined-cleaning-and-reading device-in-one

? And if it's a hadback book, where the hell did the term "cloth" come from

Feb 1st 2010 | 1:28 am

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UK - US

Hire car - rental (car)
Flyover - bridge
To Let (house) - for rent

Feb 1st 2010 | 2:18 am

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Originally Posted by nethead

I would say pressies is more of a shortening of presents than a 'babying' of the word.

Nope. Pretty clear case of babying a word. If it really is a case of word shortening, it's a damn poor job of it, isn't it?

Feb 1st 2010 | 2:27 am

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It's up!

http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Catego.../Dictionary/AE

Ignore the page names - they're a work in progress. And tell me what you think here:

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=652413

Feb 1st 2010 | 2:39 am

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Nope. Pretty clear case of babying a word. If it really is a case of word shortening, it's a damn poor job of it, isn't it?

I see your point but it's more in the tradition of making the word slangy, like 'rugger' or 'crimbo'

Feb 1st 2010 | 2:57 am

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I see your point but it's more in the tradition of making the word slangy, like 'rugger' or 'crimbo'

Exactly, if we have to draw a comparison and I'm loathe to do it 'cause it reminds me of all those horrible Australian shortening or colloquialisms like 'this arvo' and 'tinny'. Not babying something at all, but a relaxed form of speech.

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