Re: physics job

From: John Schutkeker (jschutkeker_at_sbcglobal.net.nospam)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 04:08:51 GMT

"Androcles" <Androcles@ MyPlace.org> wrote in news:mkxSd.150201
$B8.118185@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk:

> We use a trolley at the supermarket,
> You use a buggy at the grocery store.

We use a shopping cart at both the supermarket and the grocery store.
However, people sometimes used to say "baby buggy," for pram.

> eternity rings and anniversary bands

I never heard of these things. How about "wedding rings"?

> should have and should of,

Only a simpleton would write "should of." It's "should have," but it's
pronounced "should 'ave," which with an American accent is audibly
indistinguishable from "should of."

> "it is raining" and "the probability
> of precipitation is one hundred percent".

That guy was an anomaly. Of course we say "it's raining."

> (I heard that last on the car radio in Tulsa, Ok. as the rain was
> bucketing down.)

There's another one. "Bucketing down" vs. "pouring."

> "needs to be done" and "needs done" (Pittsburgh PA),

That's a regional dialect, not the midwestern standard.

> In Pittsburgh they drive on the Parkway and park on the driveway.

As opposed to what in Britain? And I see you've spent time in the Pitt.

> adjustable spanner and monkey wrench

Monkey wrenches are obsolete over here. How about "pliers"?

> aerial and antenna

We've been known to say aerial.

> mobile (phone) and cellphone,

In the early days of the cell phone system, we said "mobile phone," but
that's when they were only in cars.

> road works and construction (even if they are digging it up).

Digging is one of many construction activities.

I see you've been at this for a while.