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Damons? Plums?
On Aug 17, 10:48*pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article ,Rusty Hinge writes: | | Indeed, but it is relatively rare for a single dialect not to distinguish | two things that are (a) both commonly used and (b) where there is a | significant possibility of confusion. *Muffin is unambiguous, once you | know which side of the pond you are. | | Unfortunately not. | | You can ask for a muffin and get a proper little flat breadlingthing, or | you may be offered a large cup-cake - on this side of the pond. Well, that's because we have sold our souls to the Yankees - using the word muffin to mean a polyfilla/sawdust cupcake is a modernism (not more than a couple of decades old). | Harrap's New Shorter French and English Dictionary: (But still requires | a fork-lift...)* | | *How big/heavy is the Standard version? The version of the Larousse Francaise I saw in the Sorbonne was about the size of the Shorter Oxford. *If OUP weren't such idiots, I and lots of other people would buy CD-ROMs of the OED. *I haven't got the space for the paper version. Regards, Nick Maclaren. You were at the Sorbonne Nick? I was there at Place Sorbonne this weekend and eating breakfast there, isn't it a wonderful, wonderful building? Judith |
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