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Originally Posted by Lady Blue
Because it's a British word and they've got strange words for just about everything (from an American perspective, that is.) 
No offense meant to you Brits. You do speak much more elloquently than we do over all. You just use weird words to do it. 
Now I'll go pull my foot out of my mouth. |
How dare you! The language is called English after all and I would opine that it is you damned colonials that use the weird words: sneakers, pah! Sidewalk? That's a pavement actually. Trunk (for the thing on the back of a car)? I think you'll find that that's a boot. You even misspell a lot of the words that you do use correctly, it's colo
ur and alumin
ium for example.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm just off to wax my moustache and compose a stinging letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph on this very subject!