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Eloise posted:

Adam Zielinski posted:

Don - I will do you one better: Pole dancing vs Pole dancing

I once knew a pole dancing pole. Unfortunate she learned English in America and a bonnet fell on her head!

We've been living in Canada for part of each year since 2000, but Mrs D is still surprised when she orders (say) burger & chips and ends up with a packet of crisps with her burger. She can't get her head around the idea that burger & fries would deliver what she is expecting.

OTOH Fish & Chips does deliver fries rather than crisps.

Fries and chips aren't the same though either.  Fish and fries just isn't right!

And French fries are as French as that detective Hercule Poirot. 

Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you a flat minor.

Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

Where's the center? In the centre?

G

I was stood in the centre.

Abstracted from some website or other....

There is no difference in meaning between center and centre. Center is the preferred spelling in American English, and centre is preferred in varieties of English from outside the U.S.

Some people do make distinctions between the words. For instance, some prefer to treat center as the word for a place or institution and centre as the word for the middle point of something. But while these preferences may be taught in some schools and are perhaps common among careful English speakers in Canada, the U.K., and elsewhere, they are not broadly borne out in 21st-century usage.

"James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher."

Not to mention, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Following on from the mention of fish and chips, wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

TOBYJUG posted:

Ah, the fastest cake in the world (above Leeds).

G