12 Jun 09 18:32, Mimi Gallandt wrote to TOM WALKER:

 MG> TOM WALKER -> MIMI GALLANDT wrote:

 RN>>>> What do you do when you come upon a word or group of words in the
 RN>>>> book(s) you're reading that you don't know the definition of?

 MG>>> On the rare occasion when that happens I look it up. I have a
 MG>>> decent
 TW>> vocabul
 MG>>> in English and some in German, French and Spanish. Words are
 TW>> wonderful thing
 MG>>> and it rubs me wrong when someone uses them incorrectly. I know
 MG>>> that
 TW>> what we
 MG>>> call potato chips the Brits call crisps, what they call biscuits we
 MG>>> call cookies, they'd say we're the ones using the words
 MG>>> incorrectly, but that argument will probably never be resolved.

 TW>> Being Automoble Oriented I would add the Brit words Bonnet and Boot
 TW>> for Hood and Trunk Lid!!  :-)  :-)

 MG> Good point! There is also the case where both England and we use the
 MG> same word for different meanings IE Brits call cigarettes fagots...
 MG> we all know what that means in the US.

Of course, that all depends on how you spell the word. Fagot means a
bundle of sticks or straw and could very well be used to describe
cigarettes. However, if you spell the word with two 'Gs', you get the
meaning that you inferred when you used the single g word to infer it.

Kinda like inferring that you're intelligent, only different.

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 MG> L'Chaim,
 MG> Mimi

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 MG> "Arbeit macht frei" is the most villainous lie of all time.

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