Thread: What trips you up when reading books from different English-speaking countries?
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Old 01-15-2022, 11:32 PM   #126
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The British use of pudding is sometimes also strange to me; in the US a pudding is a sweet custard.
As strange to me (and requiring effort to remember) is that "pie" in the US almost invariably refers to a sweet dessert, not a savory pastry.
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