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Re: UK to US English

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Subject: Re: UK to US English
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 06:48:54 +0000
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, at around 22:10:14 local time, Phil Ethier 
<pethier@isd.net> wrote:
>From: "Michael Hargreave Mawson" <OC@46thFoot.com>
>> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, at around 08:23:13 local time, Joe Curry
>> <spitlist@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> >UK                US
>> >bits               parts
>>
>> Actually, we would tend to say "spares" rather than "bits".
>
>Really?  Then why is there a parts company called "Spridgebits"?

They're for when your Spridget's in bits...

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