Plus:

zee (z) as zed (z);
elevator as lift;
color as colour;
labor as labour;
friends as mates?;
foreplay as petting...

Marshall Ruskin
Winnipeg, Canada
-----Original Message-----
From: David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Friday, March 10, 2000 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: Cultural Diversity

>At 09:51 PM 3/9/2000 , ==David-M== wrote:
>>Yes, lets all 'celebrate our cultural diversity'. And I vote we start by
>>spelling tire correctly as tyre.
>
>Lessee --
>
>Aluminum as aluminium
>Duralumin as Duraluminium (?)
>Trunk as boot
>Wheel as roadwheel
>Sidewalk as pavement
>Curb as kerb
>Choke as strangler
>Vacuum as depression
>Venturi as choke
>Hood as bonnet
>Large hole in the wall as air brick
>350 degrees F as Mark 3 (or some such)
>Ice as "you get one little cube" or sometimes as "what's that?"
>Robin (American) as "bloody great thrush"
>75 degrees F as "blazing hot"
>Chumley as Cholmondeley
>Sales tax as VAT
>Cipher as cypher
>Zero as nought
>Tic-tac-toe as noughts and crosses
>Bottomless money pit as British Steel
>Peas and carrots mixed as "two veg"
>Chips (potato) as crisps (or sometimes chips)
>Weird soft drink as "Irn Bru"
>Really tasty sweetish ginger beer as ginger beer (but they could lose the
>"artificial cloud")
>Lemonade as lemon squash
>Lemon soda (sort of) as lemonade
>Lemon soda mixed with beer as shandy
>Bland and usually tasteless sausage as banger
>Really vile-tasting sausage as hot dog
>Mixture of fizzy water, comminuted oranges, saccharin sodium as "Panda"
(gah)
>Superior, character-driven TV comedy with genuine actors as quite ordinary
>
>How'm I doing?  <g>
>
>david
>David Beierl - Providence, RI
>  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
>'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
>'85 GL "Poor Relation"
>