Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> "Jesse S. Bangs" wrote:
> > Wait a sec . . . Do you mean "chips" in the sense of very thin, crunchy
> > potato products usually bought in a bag, or what most Americans would
> > call "French fries"?
>
> The latter.  I call them "French fries" too, except when responding to
> a message wherein they are called "chips".
When I'm speaking Dutch, I call them "friet" or "frietjes" (though
some people, and most snack bars, call them "patat"). The thin
crunchy things are "chips".

When I'm speaking English, it's "chips" and "crisps" respectively,
but I learned most of my colloquial English in Salisbury (Wiltshire,
not former-Rhodesia-now-Zimbabwe).

   Irina

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