Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

Joseph Fatula wrote:

>From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
>Subject: Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
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>>>tim-tam,
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>>A chocolate-covered chocolate biscuit. With three thin layers of
>>biscuit. Named after an American race-horse of the same name.
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>If they ever try marketing these in the US, I hope they rename it.  Around
>here, naming a brown biscuit after a _horse_ would certainly give the wrong
>impression about its use.
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You can definitely buy them in the US, but they're aimed more at expats
(they have (had) a page on their website <http://www.arnotts.com.au>
about how to get them) than Americans. You (not necessarily you
personally) have this inexplicable Oreo addiction. I have no idea why.
If you're going to love a chocolate biscuit, there's no doubt about
which it should be!

(And at least round here, the knowledge that the tim-tams are named
after a racehorse is on the same level as the knowledge that Donald Duck
was named after Sir Donald Bradman (a famous Aussie cricketer)---trivia
known by nearly no-one. I don't think it'd be especially relevant. And
brown biscuit and horse together don't mean much to me.)

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>