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Re: Nur-ellen in the world of Brithenig (was Re:Nur-ellen universes)

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Friday, September 1, 2000, 19:11
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:36:03PM -0400, Padraic Brown wrote: >[snip] >> That's what I had in mind, more or less. Perhaps I should have said >> "Cars, certainly, and big lorries with surly and muscular drivers >> who are fond of catcalling and honking at any bird that walks by". >[snip] > >Obigatory British-to-Amercian gloss: lorry = truck; lorries = trucks. > >Interesting how vocabulary differs from region to region... :-) > >(Sorry, just *had* to show off... now flame away! :-P)
Right. Tha didn't tell em what a "bird" is! Padraic.
>T