08-19-2009, 10:38 AM
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Where's The BOOT?
 Is it in the back end of the car? Is it on my foot?
Where can I find her bonnet? Is it over the engine compartment of her ford? Is it that pretty lace wear on her head shading her eyes from the hot sun?
How many terms are there from culture to culture that have similarities, yet do something quite different than what we thought it would?
When I heard about the spare in the boot, I immediately thought of a very large cowboy boot style shoe with a tire lodged in it! Who'd've thunk that in Britain the "Boot" is the trunk in back of the automobile!
Since we're in the trunk, Does that go in front of the elephant, or in the hold of the steamliner for the ocean voyage?
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08-19-2009, 06:09 PM
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It's not just the Brits who call "the boot" the bit behind the back seats and "the bonnet" at the front.
What I find an increasing worry is that the terms "fender" "mudguard" "Bumper bar" increasingly don't.
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08-19-2009, 09:51 PM
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Yep Aussies call it a boot & bonnet too...makes perfect sense to me *L*
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08-19-2009, 10:17 PM
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^^^ yes but you drive on the wrong side of the road also!!! 
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08-20-2009, 12:36 AM
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Didn't the American driving position evolve from a convention related to the drawing of a pistol?
We are too civilised to get caught up in that one.
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08-20-2009, 01:35 AM
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The verb 'Lift' is something I do to your skirt and the noun is sold at Victory's Secret, not a dame elevator. 
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08-20-2009, 02:33 AM
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"Ah So" has a rather generic meaning like, "I understand" or "Oh" in Japanese. In the US we use the term "As* Hol*" refering to our appreciation of who was doing the talking. Well, sometimes anyway. 
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