LL-L "Lexicon" 2005.09.03 (04) [E]

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From: ANNETTE GIESBRECHT <beautyaround at email.com>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2005.09.01 (09) [E]


In Canada, we know that when a British person asks for biscuits, he means 
cookies.   I used to live in B.C. on the coast and every summer we'd go to 
Victoria on Vancouver Island, which has a strong British tradition. 
Usually they give other clues, such as talking about elevenishes, which is a 
late breakfast consisting of tea, cakes, and cookies, and the fact that they 
prefer tea, have a tea pot with a cozy, etc.  My mother and maternal 
grandmother was English, my grandmother having kept up the tradition.  It's 
very simple really to figure out what one's talking about..  However in 
other parts of Canada, I don't that they're that knowledgable.  I had quite 
a culture shock when we moved first from B.C. to Saskatchewan and then to 
Manitoba and it wasn't just that horrible nasal accent.

I loved the emails about deluctables.  Oh and about the emails about dates, 
etc. coming from pagan roots, I hope no one's wishing they lived in those 
times.  I happen to know that some rites were pretty gruesome, human 
sacrifices and everything - not the nature loving paradise you would have 
imagined.

Annette R. Giesbrecht.

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