Re: OT: we quaint Brits (was: those irregular prepositions)
| From: | Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 23, 2006, 20:47 |
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On 6/23/06, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
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> Rather amusing (to me) is the US saying "A pint's a pound, the whole world
> 'round", which is so counterfactual that it made me very nearly splutter
> with rage the first time I heard it.
>
I've lived in the US and Canada almost all my life. I've never heard
that saying. I have heard "A pound's a pound the whole world round",
presented as a British saying. --larry
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