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(...) I am not going to debate this, but this is a language difference. In Australia, UK, and other places, the thing you have over a sink that water comes out of is called a "tap", whereas in the US (and possibly others) it is called a "faucet". (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Yep - It's definately called a 'tap', or else the following wouldn't make sense - There was was knock on the door, and a tap on the window. Our plumber has a peculiar sense of humour. "Martin Scragg" <martin.scragg@s1.com.au> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"Martin Scragg" <martin.scragg@s1.com.au> wrote in message news:Gn2wpz.6Ey@lugnet.com... (...) I will never forget the look on my US colleagues faces when I described someone as always having a fag in his mouth Lawrence (23 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Lawrence Wilkes wrote in message ... (...) someone as >always having a fag in his mouth LOL! The other good one you quickly learn not to say is "pass me the rubber" (meaning eraser)... I started work over here in a design office :-) Kevin ---...--- (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) In Canada we use both terms equally. I asked a co-worker why this is. He replied that it's our vastly superior intellects. ;) We also interchangeably use: napkin and serviette trash and garbage couch and sofa floor and ceiling OK, I made up (...) (23 years ago, 24-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I guess any country that has two official languages is goona be confused about stuff like this 8?) (...) In Australia, it seems to be mainly serviette. (...) Probably garbage is more common here, but rubbish is probably even more widely used. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) While I certainly normally say faucet, I do use tap occasionally, and what I fill my water bottle with is "tap water" not "faucet water". (...) Never heard this one. (...) I have used all three, though I actually usually mean different things (...) (23 years ago, 25-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Also known by the amazing title "spelunkers"; not very commonly used (except among spelunkers!), but made infamous when included by Willie Crowther in his brilliant advent game (the elusive last point in the game is obtained by dropping a copy (...) (23 years ago, 26-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) IIRC, "spelunker" and "caver" do not refer to precisely the same thing. The contours and qualifiers are different. But, of course, Frank can give you a better litany of the defining factors than I. ;) best LFB (23 years ago, 26-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I read an interesting story about Adventure. A woman who was a very big fan of the game got a chance to go caving in the portion of Mamoth Flint Ridge cave that Adventure is set in (the game was originally created as a "map" of the cave, Woods (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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