Re: CHAT: Education words in various English dialects // was "Mister"

> Date:         Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:18:18 +0200
> From:         Irina Rempt <ira@...>
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Adrian Morgan wrote:
>
> > Lemonade is the clear, fizzy drink of which brands such as Sprite, 7-up,
> > etc are examples.
>
> Which surprised me a lot the first time I was in England: "limonade"
> in Dutch is a fruit-flavoured syrup diluted with water.
That's now still limonade. You'll find it in the supermarket beside
fresh juice products. (Presumably there's non-fresh varieties sold
beside the corresponding juice. But I don't really trust non-alcoholic
stuff that claims to be worth drinking after 3 months at room
temperature, so I never look there).

Anyway, I though sparkling limonade was something cheap and nasty that
was only used to make shandy in pubs, and not meant to be drunk by
itself. Calling 7-up a limonade is new to me.

But what really weirds me out here: Eggs and shortening sold from
non-refrigerated shelves in shops. That's just not done in Denmark.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)