Re: Personal Conjugation based on Closeness

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> Unless usage differs outside of Australia, it's actually 'aunts and
> uncles' (like 'black and white', 'husband and wife', 'mum and dad', 'fish
> and chips', or 'knife and fork').
I have all these as well.  I always think it's interesting, living in
a large-Spanish-minority city, to see contrasts between English and
Spanish in this department:  "arroz con X" vs. "X with rice", e.g.  At a
guess, the Spanish expression reflects the fact that rice constitutes the
majority of the dish, whereas the English one treats the other ingredient
as the important one, to which the rice is mere background.

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