> Dear Heather,
> This sounds rather like "Mozzies" which as far as I
> know is Australian.
> Maybe she was a big "neighbours" fan?
> Mike Poxon
Are you expecting ME to understand the English????
:-)
On a side note, what are "neighbors fans"?
HEather
>
>
> > To anyone who knows anything about English
> dialects.
> >
> > I was at an ladies expat brunch one day, and we
> were
> > talking about weather and aircon and things of
> that
> > sort, and one lady (from England, somewhere near
> > London I believe, who had lived in Saudi Arabia
> for
> > some years) started talking about how the
> "muzzies"
> > get into the houses through the cracks in the
> windows.
> > Well, I didn't know what "muzzies" were, so I
> asked
> > and found out that they were mosquitoes. Now, I
> > thought it was interesting that the lady from
> Scotland
> > sitting beside me didn't know what "muzzies" were
> > either. Is this 1. An affectionate term for
> > mosquitoes that only English people in Saudi
> Arabia
> > use or 2. a term belonging to only a certain
> dialect
> > of England or 3. Just a word that this one lady
> > happened to know but we didn't?
> >
> > Where ever it came from, I kinda like the word.
> >
> > Heather
> >
> >
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