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Thread #33279   Message #442800
Posted By: Kim C
17-Apr-01 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Transatlantic Idioms 2
Subject: RE: BS: Transatlantic Idioms 2
Unless I missed it, nobody mentioned the word "pissed," which is Drunk in the UK, and angry in the US.

Condoms were known as French letters as far back as the American Civil War.