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Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, March 11, 2000, 3:29
And Rosta wrote:
> I thought this was one of the brit/US differences that absolutely everyone > knows
Nope. Whenever I heard "fish and chips", I pictured fish and [American-sense] chips
> along with jelly/jam
Hmm, I always thought of jelly and jam as being different things.
> sidewalk/pavement, trunk/boot, fender/bumper, > rubber, fanny, etc. etc., and that brits/USans pretend to misunderstand each > other about.
I dunno, I think alot of people don't know those differences. -- "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -- C. S. Lewis