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 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 that
 TW> what we
 MG>> call potato chips the Brits call crisps, what they call biscuits we call
 MG>> cookies, they'd say we're the ones using the words incorrectly, but that
 MG>> 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!!  :-)  :-)

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

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