>From: Chris Barker <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>There was an exchange of letters in the Independent newspaper a
>couple of weeks ago about the propensity of certain US citizens to
>treat Brits as non-English speakers...
I recall my first attempt to chat up a babe in a British pub. I got her number,
and when she left, she said, "Keep your pecker up! Knock me up some time!
In the US, this has a very different meaning than what I was later told it
meant in the local vernacular: "Keep your nose [spirits] up! Give me a call
some time!"
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