"James Silverton" > wrote in message
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> Geordie wrote on Mon, 03 May 2010 07:13:35 +1000:
>
>> I've written a blog entry about American names for ingredients
>> and what their rest-of-English-speaking-world equivalents are,
>> it's at http://bit.ly/a8gIcv
>
>> One American friend expressed surprise that she'd never heard
>> any of these, instead saying that all the Australian English
>> terms were commonplace. That's not accurate, but some might
>> be more common than others. I'd be curious for people's
>> comments about what is commonplace and what isn't, and any I
>> might have missed.
>
> Since we American are in the majority, one might, if one was to be
> obnoxious, say standard English cooking terms with translations for other
> dialects :-)
>
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>
> James Silverton
> Potomac, Maryland
>
> Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

But India, Australia, the 'English' part of Canada, and the former British
colonies in Africa and the Caribbean speak 'Kings English'...it's only us in
the States who speak 'Merkin'.
-ginny