Poor Boys --> sandwiches

[Aaron E. Drews]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Natalie Maynor wrote:

}Lynne Murphy wrote:
}> a bap is something Americans would call a roll
}
}Don't forget that not all Americans use "roll" the same way.  A
}roll to some of us is something you put butter on -- and possibly
}jelly.  We don't normally put meat on rolls.  We put hotdogs on
}buns.
}   --Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)

Okay, so a bap is like a (hamburger) bun.  But a bun here tends to be a
sweet danish-y, muffin-y sort of thing (especially now that Easter is
approaching).  Ah... the semantic drift of the Gulf stream....

--Aaron


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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
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