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Originally Posted by HarryT
....because they portray a Britain with "parking lots", "mail slots", "sneakers", and all sorts of other things that we don't have (we have "car parks", "letter boxes", and "trainers") and it just grates on a British reader to read such terms.
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As a non-native English speaker, my English is more or less international. I'm equally familiar with all the above words, but I can never remember who uses which.
I'm always worried I'll use the wrong word when talking to the wrong person.
It must be funny to see someone using trainers and parking lots in the same sentence, I guess
