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... no skin off my nose ...
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Yep, I guess it would sound crazy if some American went to England and started saying words like, French fries, Restroom, diaper, trash bag, trash can, truck, parking lot.
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Someone mentioned the word 'staunch' as a dated old word. That surprised me, I hear it quite often... I actually thought it was slang!
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I don't find it to be dated. I've heard it a bit. Maybe it's dated in their dialects and not ours (mine's Aussie).
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I don't find it to be dated either. The phrase "a staunch supporter" is quite common.
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i mean dinner is correct word.
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With all due respect, Mahesh, "i mean dinner is correct word." isn't even what most would call a correct sentence. "Dinner", "tea" or "supper", none are correct and none are incorrect.
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Well, I'd say, people always call the meal on Thanksgiving ''Thanksgiving Dinner''.
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I don't call the meal on Thanksgiving anything. I've never had a Thanksgiving Dinner. There is no Thanksgiving in Australia.
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Here's a question to trip the unwary up: "When is Thanksgiving?"
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Thanksgiving always falls on the last Thursday of November. Although there was a time in the 1940s that President Franklin Roosevelt shifted Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November to give store merchants more Christmas shopping days. But the public outcry was fierce and he was forced to move it back to its original day the following year (there's some useless trivia for you!)
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Ah! My first victum ... but that is a nice piece of trivia.
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When I think of dinner, I would use it to describe the biggest meal of the day.
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