Klarinet Archive - Posting 000324.txt from 2004/03

From: "noone nonya" <klarinets@------.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] English and American
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:00:14 -0500

We have "Baby-sitters" but no, we don't actually let them sit on our babies
Dave

>From: "Rupert Kahn" <Rupert.Kahn@------.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@------.org
>To: <klarinet@------.org>
>Subject: Re: [kl] English and American
>Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:46:59 -0000
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>Anyone who is enjoying this thread should check the Beebs "Routes of
>English" website:
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/index.shtml
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>This programmes on which this is based was worth the license fee by itself.
>If you can get to hear CDs from the programme you will not be disapointed.
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>A few comments.
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>Stuffed: The story seemed to say that English hosts took "stuffed" said
>after a meal to mean shagged or pregnant. This sounds apochryphal to me.
>Stuffed certainly can mean shagged, but it is also used to mean well fed,
>and would take a desperate and diliberate act of misunderstanding to mean
>anything else in this context.
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>Mind the gap/watch your step: If someone says watch your step I look for
>dog poo to avoid. Mind the gap is specific. We also say mind your head
>for
>low ceilings and mind your backs when people are pushing trolleys about,
>regardless of what needs minding. Do you have child minders in the US or
>only nannie's and baby sitters.
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>If my memory is right it's only Bank Station on the Underground that is so
>curved it has big gaps. Is there somewhere else.
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>Rupert
>Derbyshire
>UK
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