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Message 1217553 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 5:26:16 UTC - in response to Message 1217463.  

...jam side down .....

The odds of the bread falling butter side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet...

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Message 1217556 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 5:36:11 UTC - in response to Message 1217473.  

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Why would anyone wear two pairs of pants?

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Similarly, in AmE the word pants is the common word for the BrE trousers, while the majority of BrE speakers would understand pants to mean underwear. Many dialects in the North of England agree with the AmE usage and use pants to refer to trousers; this is often incorrectly considered an Americanism by people from elsewhere in Britain. The word pants is a shortening of the archaic pantaloons, which shares the same source as the French for trousers, pantalon.


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Message 1217559 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 5:44:00 UTC
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Americans outnumber Britians :-)

thereforE American English = English English

edit: Therefor corrected to therefore

And no one sais I's a good spellers or goods at grammars =P

(All the good stuff came from Britain. If I could tell you my last name you'd get it)
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Message 1217563 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 5:57:42 UTC - in response to Message 1217559.  

Americans outnumber Britians :-)

therefor American English = English English

Only if you learn to spell. Therefore
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Message 1217620 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 12:06:24 UTC - in response to Message 1217563.  

Hate to burst your bubble, but Indian English speakers outweigh all other English speakers put together. So....

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Message 1217643 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 14:30:10 UTC - in response to Message 1217620.  

Hate to burst your bubble, but Indian English speakers outweigh all other English speakers put together. So....

Yep, a few times over I'd say.
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Message 1217673 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 16:40:36 UTC

My phone has 108 numbers. 34 are unlabeled, 22 are labeled but i still don't know who they are, 12 i do know but are in there so i know not to answer if they call, 15 are family members i haven't seen in years, 7 are girls who flatly refuse to sleep with me but if i persevere long enough they might crack, 8 are university friends who i see daily anyway. 7 are friends i see reasonably often, leaving three numbers i actually dial regularly, one is my mother, the others are my housemates whenever they've locked me out..
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Message 1217700 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 17:13:12 UTC - in response to Message 1217620.  

Hate to burst your bubble, but Indian English speakers outweigh all other English speakers put together. So....


Given that over 50% of Americans are overweight, and most (east) Indians aren't, we just might out weigh them!
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Message 1217736 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 18:28:10 UTC - in response to Message 1217556.  

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Why would anyone wear two pairs of pants?

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Similarly, in AmE the word pants is the common word for the BrE trousers, while the majority of BrE speakers would understand pants to mean underwear. Many dialects in the North of England agree with the AmE usage and use pants to refer to trousers; this is often incorrectly considered an Americanism by people from elsewhere in Britain. The word pants is a shortening of the archaic pantaloons, which shares the same source as the French for trousers, pantalon.


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I'm a northerner and to me, pants=trousers. Although I might call them pantaloons from now on because I like the word so much :)

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Message 1217745 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 18:53:10 UTC - in response to Message 1217736.  

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Why would anyone wear two pairs of pants?

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Similarly, in AmE the word pants is the common word for the BrE trousers, while the majority of BrE speakers would understand pants to mean underwear. Many dialects in the North of England agree with the AmE usage and use pants to refer to trousers; this is often incorrectly considered an Americanism by people from elsewhere in Britain. The word pants is a shortening of the archaic pantaloons, which shares the same source as the French for trousers, pantalon.


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I'm a northerner and to me, pants=trousers. Although I might call them pantaloons from now on because I like the word so much :)

Then there is slacks(pants?) and jeans(trousers?) out here inn the west...
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Message 1217781 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 19:56:39 UTC

At last count I heard there were over a billion Indians.
That would weigh a lot.

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Message 1225303 - Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 13:01:35 UTC

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Message 1225326 - Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 14:30:28 UTC - in response to Message 1225316.  

Stops at dover on the way in i think
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Message 1225332 - Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 15:37:17 UTC - in response to Message 1225316.  

23 things every adult knows


No.24(40) Civilisation stops at Dover.

#41: The UK hasn't had a successful invasion since the Norman Conquest, but in 2012, the Olympics will change that, lot of Huns and others...
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Message 1226673 - Posted: 3 May 2012, 14:40:17 UTC

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