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John Sellers 07-28-2012 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Rhianne (Post 822024)
Mary Tamm died last Thursday.

Yes,, this is why I posted the video, wolfmeister.

She died after losing an 18-month battle with cancer. She was a great lady and she will be missed.

She was "the noblest Romana of them all."

BigV 08-06-2012 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Beest (Post 821790)
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Interestingly they didn't have beer, the drink commonly decribed as beer in the US is called lager in the UK. Common beer in the UK is bitter.

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Common beer in Seattle is IPA. :yum:

Sundae 08-07-2012 03:15 PM

Funnily enough, in conversation beer is now generally assumed to be lager - bitter needs to be specified.
"Coming for a few beers after work?"
"I'm just going to sit in the back garden and have a few cold beers."

But it's still true that if you go into a pub and ask for a pint of beer you will either have it queried (by a good barmaid) or get a pint of bitter. In fact any decent pub should query it as they will have more than one type of bitter anyway.

I noticed something similar in Leicester. The local use of cob meant a white crusty bread roll. But in general terms a cob was any bread roll. When I worked in the bakery I always checked whether someone asking for a bacon cob really wanted a bacon bap (soft bread roll). Not being pedantic - I learned in my first week that people got quite cross if you got it "wrong".

Oh, ditto rum.
Rum & Coke could mean Bacardi or Captain Morgan, but you were always in the wrong if you didn't pour what the customer expected!

What an imprecise language British English is...

Ibby 10-03-2012 12:31 AM

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