Dear Annette,
Pardon the personal reply, but didn't want to start WWIII on arachne!  Can't
resist asking:  are you reminded of the line from My Fair Lady?   You know -
"in America, they haven't spoken it for years"!!!!

Regards, with giggles, Ruth Budge (Sydney Australia)

 --- Katrina Worley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, October 10,
2003, at 11:25  PM, Annette Gill wrote:
> 
> > What you in the US call an exhibit, we in the UK call an exhibition.  
> > We use
> > the word exhibit to mean a single item on display within the 
> > exhibition.  So,
> > if the National Gallery had an exhibition of Van Gogh paintings, one 
> > of the
> > exhibits in that exhibition might be his "Wheat Field with Cypresses"
> > painting.
> >
> > My question is simply this - what word do you use for what we call an
> > exhibit?
> >
> 
> probably we'd use the term "piece"...  as in "one of the pieces in the 
> exhibit was the Van Gogh."
> 
> Katrina (who never worked with art exhibits, but did more than her fair 
> share of archaeological and ethnographical exhibits while in grad 
> school).
> 
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