Re: CHAT: Education words in various English dialects // was "Mister"
From: | jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 21:18 |
> I mention this because it's another education word, but of course there
> are many trans-oceanic differences/overlaps, even among such seemingly
> innocent words as "shed", "lemonade" and countless others.
Out of curiosity, how can "lemonade" be anything than a sweetened lemon
drink?
Lemonade's my favorite, especially the pink kind :-P
Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
"It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and
improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and
intoxicate. It is the old things that are young."
-G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_