Sometimes I don't know which way to turn. The Brits complain when I use American expressions, and vice versa. This time I was explaining the router problem to a Brit, and was told that it wasn't a router, it was a 'rooter'. A router in British English is apparently something that saws through things. A tool of some kind.
I'm going to pay as much attention to this important lesson as I do to well I don't know, maybe somebody who tells me the importance of having a Porsche vs a Maserati. They're both cars, right?
But the guy I was having the discussion with had a cool t-shirt. Think it says Oxbow. Whatever that means...
2 comments:
ha, well in Australian English rooter means something else entirely. As with so much Australian slang it comes down to bonking
I'll let him know. That should shut him up.
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