Re: CHAT: Education words in various English dialects // was"Mister"

Adrian Morgan wrote:

> I mention this because it's another education word, but of course there
> are many trans-oceanic differences/overlaps, even among such seemingly
> innocent words as "shed", "lemonade" and countless others.
What's the "shed" problem?  I know about "lemonade", and about the trouble with
the American hackish expression "go root" (= "assume super-user capability
on a Unix system").

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