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Default British propensity for dimunitive nicknames (tranny, addy, proggy,etc.)



Smitty Two wrote:

msg wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
N Cook wrote:


Only yesterday I had to correct my earlier misunderstood email reply to
someone in the USA.
I had earlier slipped into Brit-speak saying I'd posted something to him,
wheras for USA I have to say I had mailed it to him.
Americans pay checks with bills - we pay bills with cheques.

I like the French for bills (US checks) it's l'addition !...


Huh? I thought you both had transposed 'check' and 'bill' as a typo; never
have I encountered this usage in the U.S. This sounds a bit like
negative energy; if we in the U.S. could pay our debts with 'bills'
we'd all be richer than Croesus. Except for the spelling (check vs.
cheque) we're stuck tendering that bank draft to pay our 'bills'.


I think we still have some confusion. We do call "paper" currency
"bills," as in "twenty-dollar bill," so we can pay debts with bills, but
we don't say it that way, we just call that "paying cash" for something.
I guess the British equivalent of "bill" in that usage would be "note?"


Correct.

Graham