Klarinet Archive - Posting 000276.txt from 2004/03

From: Jesse Rogers <jar2321@------.rr.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] English and American
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:05:15 -0500


Matthew Lloyd wrote:

>
> Please note nothing that I have said is intended to imply that either
> language is better or worse than the other - just to establish that
> there is a difference!
>
> Matthew
> (England!)

As I found out when in a shop in Epsom my wife complained that the
buckle on her "fanny" pack kept loosening. A very embarrassed
Englishwoman explained to us that "over here it means the other side".
We were the butt of jokes for weeks.
Jesse Rogers
Columbs, OH