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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
If you start talking about the "football pitch," you are going to hear about it from Hank. And not in a nice way. I tell you because I care.
The part about me telling you because I care is a lie.
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I was just on that effort when we were on the newbers thread.
But you should know that when you use UK terms, you are making some of the more well-respected posters think less of you. Just yesterday NotBob posted this on PB:
- Their excessive use of Britishisms sometimes annoys me -- I really think that most of the time that they throw in "tyres" and "petrol" and "lorries" and "queue" just to appeal to Anglophiles here in the US.
Just saying, if you want friends in the heartland, you might want to stick to "glass of beer" and "soccer field".
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