neil foddering wrote:
> I attended an American school for the 8th and 9th Grades, and after 40
> years, I can still clearly remember my classmates in fits of laughter
> when I first used the British term "lay the table" instead of "set the
> table" and "rubber" instead of "eraser"...
With a British mother and a Canadian father, I recall exactly the same thing happening in the American schools I attended... :-)
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA