2007-10-18

2007-10-18 01:06 am
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This brought to you by Andrew saying he left a glass of water for me on the side

In many ways I'm envious of the British variant of our fair language; I don't think we have such a good word for wellies, or anything quite like faffing about. I like trainers better than any of the words I grew up with for such shoes.

But it's just not worth it. The thing in the kitchen, for which I use the perfectly good word counter, is here called the top1 ... or the side. 2

1 Which I can almost see because I could call it a countertop without getting weird looks.

2 Which not only makes no sense (except maybe from sideboard?) but is also not allowed to be in any way equivalent to the top of anything.