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22-04-2006, 01:13 PM
Ok i've had my say lol
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22-04-2006, 01:14 PM
Originally Posted by doglover
In my opinion tea is a hot drink made with tea leaves and boiling water and tea is also dinner like a birthday tea etc like a mini dinner, finger food stuff like that. A dinner is the main meal of the day. My dictionary says; "dinner the principal meal of the day; a feast, a banquet".Ok i've had my say lol
Hmmmmm - another Southerner
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22-04-2006, 01:14 PM
Originally Posted by Foxy
No sorry Steve - its just you lot down there have become too Americanised 
Do you call the dustbin the Garbage can as well and petrol - Gas? We just stick to what we have always known up here - no copying the yanks for us 
No actually the american copy us, just look at the names of their places....
New YORK
BIRMINGHAM in Alabama
New HAMPSHIRE
DOVER in delaware
LINCOLN in Nebraska
I could go on and on!
sarah xxxx
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22-04-2006, 01:15 PM
Originally Posted by doglover
In my opinion tea is a hot drink made with tea leaves and boiling water and tea is also dinner like a birthday tea etc like a mini dinner, finger food stuff like that. A dinner is the main meal of the day. My dictionary says; "dinner the principal meal of the day; a feast, a banquet".Ok i've had my say lol
Dinner=main meal
Tea=hot drink
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22-04-2006, 01:16 PM
Originally Posted by Wheaten mad
No actually the american copy us, just look at the names of their places....New YORK
BIRMINGHAM in Alabama
New HAMPSHIRE
DOVER in delaware
LINCOLN in Nebraska
I could go on and on!
sarah xxxx
And Canada has a Scarborough because I went there
You're still wrong though Sarah - not even a southerner can be right all the time
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22-04-2006, 01:17 PM
Originally Posted by rob
well said frizzyand that comes from someone who is not from the north or down your end Steve
Perhaps you ought to look on a map Rob-Frizzy lives in Coventry which is north from me...
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