On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:59:00 -0000, Neil Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Like in the UK you don't say you are going to vacuum your house (unless you > are trying to sound posh), you get the Hoover out, even it is made by > someone else. The exception to this is Dyson, people actually call it a > Dyson. I lived in England for a while (a year of undergrad in Nottingham, a year of graduate school in Cambridge). "Hoover" was the one bit of British English I just could never get used to. I willingly added "u" to colour and favourite. I dropped "the" when talking about someone who's in hospital. I can pull off a really atrocious imitation of a BBC radio newscaster. I wrote cheques (not checks!) with amounts like "Five pounds only" instead of "Five pounds and no/100". I even learned to refer to sports teams as singular entities (America have advanced to the second round of the World Cup!). But I never could get over the use of Hoover to mean vacuum. Cheers, Lane :) -- Meetup with other Myth users! http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MUG
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