12 Jun 09 08:37, TOM WALKER wrote to MIMI GALLANDT:


 MG>> RN> What do you do when you come upon a word or group of words in
 MG>> the
 MG>> 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 decent
 MG>> vocabul in English and some in German, French and Spanish. Words are
 MG>> wonderful thing and it rubs me wrong when someone uses them
 MG>> incorrectly. I know that what we call potato chips the Brits call
 MG>> crisps, what they call biscuits we call cookies, they'd say we're
 MG>> the ones using the words incorrectly, but that argument will
 MG>> probably never be resolved.

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

Those are carry overs from the horse and buggy days, as is their
propensity to drive on the wrong side of the road.

                R\%/itt

Joy lives in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in
the victory itself.

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