Keith Willcocks wrote:
A few years ago we took a train trip across Canada and fell in with a group
of Americans. By the end of the trip I had them calling the railroad: the
railway, switches: points and ties: sleepers. Oh and the engineer was the
engine driver.

And Americans drive on the parkway whereas we park on the driveway.
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney
www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont
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