Janet wrote on Mon, 3 May 2010 00:29:51 +0100:

>> 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 :-)

> You may be a majority in rfc, but hardly in Geordie's blog.

> afaik, America is not the majority of English speakers,
> either.

What dialect is the majority dialect? Not British, not Indian, not
Australian!

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