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Re: OT:NEWEST AMERICAN BUMPER STICKERS
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:32:46 +0100
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In message <[log in to unmask]>, Brian 
Donaldson <[log in to unmask]> writes

><< But you Yanks call 'em fenders.  >>

I see I have been wrong about this for years :-(

Fenders are wings. Rats. No wonder Denys was confused....

And our bicycles and motorbikes have mudguards.

Truly two nations separated by a common language.

>I wouldn't go calling someone from the South (Ray in Texas, for example)
>a "Yank(ee)"
>Do you want to start another Revolutionary war, y'all?

>Brian.

Privately, we call you 'merkins'. But you might like that even less :-)
-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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