So you call plugs outlets over there. This certainly is a fascinating site. We refer to outlets in the retail sense. Plugs can be the electrical or sink kind. Sink? Washbasin? Fascinating.
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So you call plugs outlets over there. This certainly is a fascinating site. We refer to outlets in the retail sense. Plugs can be the electrical or sink kind. Sink? Washbasin? Fascinating.
We also refer to outlets in the retail sense. :D
Thank you, papaya. I'd like to think I could have figured that out with a little more context. :D
Ol' Blue made it!!!!! My favorite mp3 player in the whole wide world took a trip through the washing machine. I thought she was a goner but yesterday I tried to turn her on one last time and she worked!!!!! Life is good.
She should have kept the patch on! In defense of pet parrots ( I have one), they are so smart and their eyesight is so good, they know the eyes are extremely valuable, and when they do touch the eyelids they are so very gentle. When my bird grooms my face, she will never get too close to my eye- if she wants to examine my eyelashes or my eye makeup, she will poke just a little. It is really very cute.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
I call them plugs- the outlets are what you plug in to. I love going to London and looking at British signs- Way Out for Exit. And the British names for things like; Washing up liquid for dishwashing soap is my favorite. Growing up liquid for baby formula I love. Hoovering for vacuuming, and I also really love the word toilet that is used over there instead of restroom!! Restroom makes no sense. So last summer when we came back from our second trip to London, I tried to use the word toilet when I went back to work. It was a disaster. People thought it was as bad as swearing, that's how it is taken here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
I can't wait to go back.
Interesting. I had a mate who spent some time in the US at one of the summer camps. He told me that he once stood on a table and told the kids to "Pick up the rubbish and put it in the bin". Of course they hadn't a clue what he was on about as he didn't use trash and can.Quote:
Originally Posted by KCurtis
Restroom seems an unnecessary euphemism. Loo seems to be both a good description but least offensive. I've also heard it referred to the small room and the WC.
Lol !! I've read so many British authors these terms are very familiar to me- but that is one reason we love to go to Britain. We can say the word toilet. However, the two times I have been there I never had enough toilet paper. Two squares is not sufficient.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Delayed. Fly out tonight or take a nine am flight tomorrow and take a travel voucher for $200?