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To: snugs

We also use the term loft to mean storage place for hay.

More fun translations:

stove (US) = cooker (UK)
potholder (US) = oven cloth (UK)
truck (big rig) (US) = lorry (UK)


73 posted on 05/11/2008 2:25:39 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (To the liberal, there's no sacrifice too big for somebody else to make. --FReeper popdonnelly)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Stove is an old fashioned English word for a cooker my nan used to refer to our cooker as a stove and my dad still does. Interestingly though he also refers to our electric and when we had one gas fire as a stove.

A potholder in Britain is the square shape oven cloth. We also have oven mits or gloves.

We also say truck in fact I would say if you are under 50 in Britain you would use the word truck and lorry over 50 probably mainly lorry. We often use the term rig for the cab only.


78 posted on 05/11/2008 5:39:27 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - Big Time))
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