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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... |
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