Thread: What trips you up when reading books from different English-speaking countries?
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Old 01-15-2022, 03:21 PM   #117
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
Not sure if it is still common, but I paused when I heard cigarettes referred to as 'fags.'
Or in books set in medieval times when a bundle of gathered sticks was called a faggot. Made me wonder how the name for a bundle of sticks got transferred over to gays.
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