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To: Rebelbase
Just curious, what culture calls a baby stroller a perambulator?

It's from the UK/Brit-speak. Again, two countries separated by a common language.

79 posted on 07/21/2013 8:11:50 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45

Thanks.


82 posted on 07/21/2013 8:13:57 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: T-Bird45; Rebelbase

You used to hear “perambulator” in America around the middle of the last century, as well. Now, the Brits are calling it a “push-chair.” Hate that.


131 posted on 07/21/2013 10:05:45 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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