I would not park my car in a pergola!!! Shelley Gage Australian born and bred > Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:57:00 -0800 > From: jamesamckenney@verizon.net > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: Re: [pbs] It's driving me crazy > > David Ehrlich wrote "I have long been of the opinion that English is a > mutually unintelligible language." > > Or, as someone (Oscar Wilde? Winston Churchill? G.B.Shaw? who knows?) said "American and Britain are two countries separated by the same language". > > Add in India and Australia and it gets even more interesting. > > How many of you knew that in Australia the pergola is what we in the US call a carport. > > Jim McKenney > jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com > Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, USDA zone > 7 > My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ > <http://www.jimmckenney.com/> > BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ > Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS > Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ <http://www.pvcnargs.org/> > Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/ > <http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/> > _______________________________________________ > > > > ________________________________ > From: David Ehrlich <idavide@sbcglobal.net> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 2:30 PM > Subject: Re: [pbs] It's driving me crazy > > David Nicholson wrote: > To ease their feelings in that direction they should be aware that Jim comes > from a nation that persists in spelling the colour "grey" as "gray"! > > In the frist place, might I note that gray is a color not a coulour. > > I always enjoy watching Brit-coms and mysteries presented by PBS. But, I laways > have the subtitles turned on. I have long been of the opinion that English is a > mutually unintelligible language. > > David E. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/