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Date Posted: 18:45:38 06/12/00 Mon
Author: CW
Subject: Languages can be funny sometimes--we have a lot of
In reply to: duck 's message, "Interesting..." on 15:05:52 06/09/00 Fri

strange words. Also, Americans are good at making up words which can be confusing even for us sometimes!

Yes we get J&B over here--Johnny Walker is right next to it on the shelf in the liquor stores. Over here these are both called "Scotch". Jack Daniels and Southern Comfort are blended whiskeys--different from the Scotch that I enjoy (medicinally of course?!) J&B is about the same price as Johnny Walker Red (label color) over here. I think that the differences are if the "brew" is blended, how it's aged, and just what they do to make it in the first place.

I love historic places--I've written down your suggestions and they will go into my "wish book." I golf--albiet not the greatest but I enjoy playing. Let's just say that I am efficient with my game and sometimes play 18 holes (meaning swinging the club) in the space and time it takes to play 9 holes. The beach sounds great--I love the ocean smell and the sound of the waves. I have swam in the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico. Each beach was so different!

The train trip that I watched on TV looked really cool--certainly the food served on the train looked wonderful. The scenery and the places they showed in Scotland are not like anything I have seen over here. I also would like to spend a little time on one of the islands off your west coast. The peace, quiet, and solitude sound like something I would enjoy for a time. I'd also love to get some wool yarn as I like to knit--the stuff we get here isn't always the greatest!

The word "aisle" describes the shelves on both sides of you and the space between the shelves on either side in a store. Many of our stores have shelves that start close to the floor and go up over my head--maybe 6 feet high. (I'm not very good at metric conversions but if a meter stick is a little longer than our yardstick which is 3 feet long, then I would guess maybe the top shelf would be about 2 meters from the floor?) Anyhow, the term aisle is used to indicate which row you would look in for a particular item. They often are numbered or have letters that allow clerks to tell you which aisle to look in when you can't find something.

Oh yea, I had mentioned that I should find a book on the different Tartans and I found one the next day in an advertisement for a book club I belong to. What a coincidence! Can't wait for it to come.

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Re: Languages can be funny sometimes--we have a lot of -- duck, 09:57:36 06/14/00 Wed
- You're right-- -- CW, 18:20:09 06/19/00 Mon