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[Jon]

Tell him to come back on Pancake Day. 6 pancakes for breakfast tends to be
more acceptable then.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/pancakeday/index.htm

 

[Andrew McLaren]

What Jay wanted of course was pancakes, known as flapjacks or griddle
cakes in the UK.

Hmm, sounds a bit apocryphal, to me. In Australia we have been eating
"pancakes" on Pancake Tuesday since at least the mid 1950s to my personal
knowledge; and I believe for decades or centuries before that. Mind you the
term "Shrove Tuesday" or even "Pancake Tuesday", seems to get blank stares
in the US. Even "Good Friday" gets a few puzzled looks; and from a nation
which goes completely, absurdly ape-shit over the opposite end of the
liturgical calendar, Christmas.

My favourite cultural blooper was when I was in the US, a workmate asked me
why we didn't celebrate Thanksgiving in Australia! Hmmm.

Don't get me started on how the British maul the language. ;-)

That's fine ... you already have a US English version of Windows. What we
want is a UK/Autralian/Canadian/Commonwealth English version of Windows.

Anyway I'm one of those miserable lamer MVP Microsoft fan boys you hate so
much, so you should be flaming me about how I am supporting Microsoft by ...
criticising Microsoft ...???? uh, well, I dunno, but I'm sure you should be
flaming me.

 

[Adam Albright]

Hmm, sounds a bit apocryphal, to me. In Australia we have been eating
"pancakes" on Pancake Tuesday since at least the mid 1950s to my personal
knowledge; and I believe for decades or centuries before that. Mind you the
term "Shrove Tuesday" or even "Pancake Tuesday", seems to get blank stares
in the US. Even "Good Friday" gets a few puzzled looks; and from a nation
which goes completely, absurdly ape-shit over the opposite end of the
liturgical calendar, Christmas.

My favourite cultural blooper was when I was in the US, a workmate asked me
why we didn't celebrate Thanksgiving in Australia! Hmmm.


That's fine ... you already have a US English version of Windows. What we
want is a UK/Autralian/Canadian/Commonwealth English version of Windows.

Anyway I'm one of those miserable lamer MVP Microsoft fan boys you hate so
much, so you should be flaming me about how I am supporting Microsoft by ...
criticising Microsoft ...???? uh, well, I dunno, but I'm sure you should be
flaming me.

Here we go again. Did I say ALL MVPs? No some. You trying to make the
list?

 

[XS11E]

For years, English speakers have had to put up with Americanisms
like "Colors" in Windows.

Isaac Asimov said it best, "If the Brits can't learn English, let them
get their own damn language!"

 

[Mike]

Isaac Asimov said it best, "If the Brits can't learn English, let them
get their own damn language!"

LOL! Now THAT'S funny!


Mike

 

[Andrew McLaren]

Isaac Asimov said it best, "If the Brits can't learn English, let them
get their own damn language!"

Pace Asimov, that misses the point. It's not "the Brits"; it's every
English speaking country, apart from the USA - UK, Ireland, India, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, most of the Carribean, and
English-speaking Africa. Of course, Americans famously believe they are the
only country which really matters, and that they are inevitably right in all
matters (as in foreign policy; so in language) - despite being a mere ~4% of
the world's population.