stephiiberrybean said:Thats technically not english then!
just saying....
Jacqui said:And don't get me started on things like we park in driveways, but drive on parkways.
stephiiberrybean said:Well technically it came from eastern europe and Jews so technically it is a Jewish and Eastern European word!
stephiiberrybean said:See, thats where you Americans got all the proper English messed up!
We call them trousers not pants. Pants are underwear over here.
We also don't drive on parkways. We park in car parks or our driveways but we drive on roads.
Technically I'm not very technical at all... technicalities confuse me!
AnthonyC said:Haha! Yeah, Lynn it's a real hoot! I feel so bad for my ESL students b/c they try spell things phonetically and it just doesn't work with English.