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Even these might be different, though. Lift has meanings separate from elevator, which are surely used in both regions. Similarly, truck has multiple meanings other than just lorry. <div><br></div><div>Finding examples without those problems still leaves the problem that the idealized or typical image of a truck is probably different from that of a lorry due to differences in the models/sizes of the vehicles in the respective countries, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>It still might be possible to find perfect synonyms in different dialects, but it might prove to be a difficult task. BB<br><div><br><div><div>On Oct 17, 2008, at 11:15 PM, <a href="mailto:rtroike@email.arizona.edu">rtroike@email.arizona.edu</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width: 655px; position: relative; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 470px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 25px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; z-index: 1; line-height: 1.22em; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">One dimension that has been neglected in this discussion is regional<br st
yle="line-height: 1.22em; ">difference. There are numerous cases in most, probably all, languages<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">(provided that they are spoken by more than one person, or perhaps<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">one community) where there are regionally different equivalents for<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">the same object/activity/<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">condition. British vs American English furnishes<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">numerous examples: lorry vs truck, lift vs elevator, etc., etc. Surely<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">these are exact synonyms, either abstractly or for those who know both,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">and the contexts of usage would be the same in different speech-communities.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></p></div></div></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"><br></span></font></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div>
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