Just curious, how often do the subjects of articles you work on come
up in daily life? I work on a lot of pretty obscure and random stuff,
but even still, I'm surprised how often I can claim to have written
the article about some Australian town, a state park, a ski resort...
On the downside,
Just last week I was out at a local flea market (is this the same phrase in
British English?), and I asked a junk-book seller if he's ever seen the
book Foster Family by Buddy Foster. I explained that Buddy was Jody Foster's
older brother who had actually had a TV career several years before
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
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P.S. A Flea Market (at least in American English) is where people bring all
their junk they want to get rid of, and spread it out for other people to
buy it for very low prices.
We have those. I've heard Americans refer to garage
In a message dated 8/30/2009 6:22:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
carcharot...@googlemail.com writes:
We have those. I've heard Americans refer to garage sales. We
(Brits) have those sometimes, but more often we take stuff to a local
charity shop, or a school's jumble sale, or stick stuff in
I've heard Americans refer to garage sales.
Where I live (mid-Missouri), there's more yard sales and rummage
sales than there are garage sales, but it's all the same thing.
On Aug 30, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Carcharoth wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
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P.S. A
n Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:33 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
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I was just thinking the other day, Is there a British-American Dictionary
? That would be a dictionary that has all these various words and phrases
and their translations into British English. Often I'll come upon an
article
Carcharoth schreef:
I was hoping Wiktionary had something, but haven't found it yet.
It's on Wikipedia:
[[List of words having different meanings in British and American English]]
(and the other pages in the navbox at the top of that page).
Eugene
2009/8/30 wjhon...@aol.com:
A flea market must be like your car boot sale, but the flea market's I've
been to, aren't in empty fields, they are more organized and regular.
Car boot sales are often very organised and regular. Some sellers will
be regulars (selling things they made or buy in
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:33 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
I was just thinking the other day, Is there a British-American Dictionary
? That would be a dictionary that has all these various words and phrases
and their translations into British English. Often I'll come upon an
article obviously
