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By Alistair Mad Scotsman (Contact - View My Woyano)
Published Wed 24 Oct 2007, 315 Views, 2 Comments

I stumbled back across, on my old wandering about the ether, this site, which shows the differences between English and American English.

I've linked to the letter "S", simply because of this definition..

scotch n. Scotch is a contraction of the word "Scottish" but is now only used in the context of foodstuffs (and even then really just scotch eggs), and whisky - we refer to anything else as being "Scottish". So we aren't Scotch people; we are Scottish people. If we were Scotch people, we would be made primarily from whisky. Oh, wait…

There are doubtless others which will amuse, but this one struck a cord with me!


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    clemmati ~ 7 months ago
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    Oh, wait…

    :)
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      vadagh ~ 7 months ago
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      Wheres the link to the Profanisaurus, from Viz that would really confuse our freinds from across the pond ;-)
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        AdGuy
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        This is my two cents...

           
        Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)

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