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Originally Posted by HarryT
Another quick read: "Killing Floor", by Lee Child; the first book in the "Jack Reacher" series.
The only "British-ism" I did notice is that, several times in the story, reference is made to a "mobile phone" (British), rather than a "cell phone" (American).
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Just ran into a real “British-ism” in the Peter Robinson book,
In the Dark Places that I’d never seen even having lived in Britain (just outside London) for four years. Anyway he used the term ‘shuftti’ as in “We need to have a quick shuftti before we leave the crime scene”. So I looked it up and apparently it means a quick ‘look around’. Had to stop reading to look it up. Anyway, did I get it right?