Re: an announcement...

Christophe Grandsire <grandsir@...> wrote:
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> andrew wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >
> > > Can we say "house-mate"?
> > >
> > I refer to the people I share the house with that we rent as
> > 'flatmates'.
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>         "Flatmates"... Although I learned that flat meant "apartment", =
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>         least your explanation fits exactly to our situation.
    Keep in mind that that's British English.  Most Americans would have =
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idea what you mean by "flatmate", as "flat" is never used in that sense =
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here.  Your original term, "housemate", would work fine, although I would
lose the hyphen.

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