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Old 12-23-2003, 08:13 AM  
Ross
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Originally posted by sarah_webinc
everytime my moher visits me over here she is amussed by our signs. She thinks it is funny that what American signs say with one word the British have to use as many as possible.

For example: Exit sign = Way Out

I worked as a travel agent over here for a few years and I never got used to calling car rental car hire which is what anything rented is called over here unless it is a house and the it is 'let'.

People laugh when I say I have learned a whole new language but I have
That must just be an English thing coz up here in Scotland we sure as hell don't walk about asking for the "way out" Exit is used world wide.
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