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10-13-2008, 09:00 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Interesting blog on American/British English usage
here: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/
kept by an American linguist in the UK. spanking for birthdays, yay! Only wish my kids would let me do it . . .
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10-13-2008, 09:14 AM
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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I used to love getting the bumps
The blog makes it sound quite polite, but in fact you are HEAVED up in the air and it's incredibly exciting (do you know A Leg And A Wing? I loved that too). I wish adults got the bumps. We get rollercoasters, but they cost more. I've bookmarked the site to read later at my leisure.
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10-13-2008, 01:40 PM
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Encroaching on your decrees
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
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yeah, bumps is definitely more about being thrown up into the air and scarcely restrained by your limbs
 than it is about being delicately lowered to the ground.
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