Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

Joseph Fatula wrote:

>I've never heard the words metcard,
>
Electronically/magnetically validated public transport ticket
(credit-card sized).

>dettol,
>
Antiseptic thing made by a presumably English company: the Queen uses
it. If you get a cut that might get infected, you would wash it in
Dettol. Orangey color. Distinctive smell.

>tim-tam,
>
A chocolate-covered chocolate biscuit. With three thin layers of
biscuit. Named after an American race-horse of the same name.

> or arnott
>
Arnott's Biscuits: biscuit (cookie) company founded in Australia but
bought by Campbells a few years ago. Never used generically.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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