two peoples separated by a common language

From: Mike Dawson <mdawson_at_mac.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 22:25:05 +0000

on 6/13/00 10:52 AM, Mark Galeotti <m.galeotti_at_his.keele.ac.uk> wrote:

> One of our dogs is a ten-and-a-half
> stone bull mastiff,

All us yanks find this very colorful, but even us guys dat got real big vocabularies don't got no idea what that works out to in pounds or kilos or kilos or whether that's "Big 16" or "Big 5w".

Now, we do follow that it means "Big." We just don't know how big.

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