Thread: How do Americans feel about UK spelling?
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Old 10-27-2010, 05:33 PM   #338
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If you say "paraffin" in the US, you mean the wax. I know it's edible, because when I was a kid there was a candy with sugary liquid inside a paraffin tube. I thought I knew Brit-speak, but paraffin for kerosene is a new one on me.
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