British phrases

[Urbane Guerrilla]

I once greatly entertained a Portsmouth taxi driver by pronouncing the town I'd been in the previous day on a day-trip as... "Sal-is-bury."

His eyes got rather big and he exclaimed, "I love the way you pronounce Salisbury! -- better than ours." As I got into the taxi, I said, "And the pity of it is, I do know the native pronunciation and try and follow it." Well, we had a wonderful gab all the way from the waterfront to downtown, parted ways with expressions of esteem and went on our ways rejoicing.

So, um, in Brit-land... how many syllables in "Salisbury Steak?"

Fried bread around here usually means Navajo fried bread, like a puffy tortilla, on which other goodies are spread, either savory or sweet. If it's a slice of bread dipped in egg beaten in milk, it's French toast.