Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"
| From: | Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 7, 2000, 3:17 |
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> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of yl-ruil
> Sent: Saturday, March 4, 2000 5:43 AM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"
> !!Englishman on the warpath alert!!
> I trust you know that chips are what you get at Fish 'n' Chip
> Shops and are
> sometimes called by poor benighted schismatics "fries". Personally, I like
> my chips with brown sauce.
> Crisps are what come in packets with labels like "Ready Salted"
> or "Salt and
> Vinegar".
I've wondered for a while, if British people call french fries chips, and
chips crisps, what do they call crisps? (Crisps to me are things that are
similar to chips but baked instead of fried, but I've only heard of them
within the last few years; that's what their manufacturers call them.)
Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo suHnus
raccoon@elknet.net