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Thread #33063 Message #438980
Posted By: GUEST,Mr Red @ Library
12-Apr-01 - 10:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: Transatlantic Idioms
Subject: RE: BS: Transatlantic Idioms
Murray MacLeod What you refer to was put succintly by an American Author of a book on the New Zealand language. eg UK has haberdashery and Kiwi's have manchester! anyway the author called the ambiguous ones "false friends".