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

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:21:10PM -0600, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 04:40:10PM -0400, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:59:39PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > > "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> > >
> > > > You can shed hair, and some animals shed their skin; however, you can also
> > > > store the lawn-mower in the shed.
[snip]
> I for one have never heard <shed> used that way.
Well, when I was in Malaysia, people only ever used "shed" as a verb; but
I did see "shed" as a noun in books. In Canada, "shed" carries both
meanings in colloquial language as well.


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