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). > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
