switching out the word ‘boot’ for ‘trunk’
What's the context of trunk there? Tree trunk? Car trunk?
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What's a tree boot?
Makes as little sense to me as a car boot, but tree boot existing wouldn't surprise me given how little sense english makes anyway
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"Are you in a rental?" That turns up so much that I'm struggling with the proper way. Do you rent? Are you a tenant? Do you have a landlord?
"Do you rent?" is usually the way people say it in the US.
I noticed in Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Gromit cares for a vegetable in his garden that they either call a ‘marrow’ in British English or ‘melon’ in the localized American export of the film.
“How’s that marrow/melon of yours coming on?” -Wallace
I’m American. I couldn’t come up with trunk so I called it a boot. Thanks to all those episodes of Top Gear I’m sure. Bonus is that my wife and I watch enough Dr. Who so that she knew what I was referring to.
I've picked up "bloody" - as in "bloody hell" or "you're a bloody idiot."
I love this one. It has a great cursing sort of feel, but nobody gets on your case about language.
Please correct your child. Next thing you know he'll be defending the second ammendment and voting for trump
Don't worry. If she's anything like her Father she'll be more interested in Eugene Debs than Donald Trump.
I use loads of americanisms and their spelling for words like color, the way I see it most the world is using English so least we can do is meet them 0 001% of the way on cresting a global odious language
I’m in Australia now and it’s zucchini and eggplant here, though in general words are much more like British English. No idea what’s going on with the pronunciation of “cache” here though - I work in tech and it’s mental how they say that. Like, Brits and Yanks are in full agreement about that word.
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I'm all for Canola being the replacement for R@peseed but in just checking there does seem to be a difference between them (Canola is GM R@peseed)
https://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-between-canola-and-rapeseed-206047
I went to school in a rather rural part of the country. One of my school friends was a tad concerned when he came across a folder named "Rape Photos" on his dad's computer.
Thankfully it was just a record of their field crop
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