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

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, October 26, 2000, 12:22
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Irina Rempt wrote:

> 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.
Whereas in North Am the stuff has no fizz, and is a relatively straight- forward mixture of lemon juice, water, and sweetener (canonically sugar, but can be anything nowadays, and some people even omit the sweetener). However, a glass of water with a wedge of lemon in it is not lemonade. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter