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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_