Separated by a Common Language?

[monster]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I would never say range or cooker, the thing as a whole and the inside part are both the oven, and the top burners are the stove. Also, I would wash my hands "in the sink," I wouldn't refer to the faucet at all.

Most Brits, however, would use cooker, I think, and most Americans would not. I do find Americans have a greater range of terms for this appliance.

Yes, I would also say "in the sink" but if asked to specify which bit of the sink, to a Brit I'd say tap, to an American faucet.

I wonder if the coffee cake think is due to the Germanic influence up here?

[jinx]

Originally Posted by monster

Yes, I would also say "in the sink" but if asked to specify which bit of the sink, to a Brit I'd say tap, to an American faucet.

My mom's mom would say spigot.

Coffee cake must have those little cinnamon crumb things, and the icing on it it more like a glaze.

[monster]

Originally Posted by jinx

My mom's mom would say spigot.

I've heard spigot used a lot too -I just forgot about it! Is it regional?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by monster

I've heard spigot used a lot too -I just forgot about it! Is it regional?

I think it's more generational... an old fashioned term.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by monster

Are they refrigerated at the supermarket, now?

As Dani says - nope. We get them from the local butcher and they sit proudly on display behind the counter in large egg trays. You have to bring your own eggbox (carton?) as they're local farm eggs and although they're obviously sorted and stamped they are not packed. And yes, they come with feathers and gunk, are varying sizes and sometimes a bit knobbly.

As an aside, I looked all over town for white eggs for Easter. Nope. You can't get white eggs for love nor money in this town. Weird, because it was white or nothing when I was growing up. Still, the dyes worked well on the brown. They would just have been brighter on white.

And we don't put the eggs in the fridge when we come home either. They're out on the counter. Or they will be when I buy some today - I had egg on toast for tea last night.

Originally Posted by monster

I've heard spigot used a lot too -I just forgot about it! Is it regional?

Spiggits are biscuits in our family. Comes from my brother trying to say biscuits as a child (more properly s-bicits) Whenever I hear spigot that's what I think of.

Re wiping up. If you have soap bubbles on your plates when they're draining, you're using too much washing up liquid. We wipe up as soon as we've washed up and I don't recall any bubbles on the plates. And after all, you are wiping them... It would be a waste of hot water to rinse them! Then again, I grew up in a house where three of us would use the same bathwater, for fear of the ruinious cost of hving the immersion on. And we boiled a keetle for our morning wash in the sink.