> In article <GTP10.95Sep8094736@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
> Dr G.T. Parks <gtp10@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >jzahn@aol.com (JZahn) writes:
> >
> >> Anyhow, here is the expanded list I've compiled from your responses:
> >>
> >> American
British
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> Here's another I came across recently on another newsgroup:
>
> eraser rubber
> rubber (i.e. condom) ??????
>
> Plenty of opportunity for misunderstanding there...
>
Hence the confusion of an american teacher working at my Fathers school when
he told her that
"OK, each child gets one rubber per term, and won't get another one until the
following one"
In britain we tend to call condoms condoms. They are, however known
variously as French Letters (though this is somewhat dated) Rubber Jonnies,
or just Jonnies.
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