Janet wrote on Sun, 2 May 2010 23:51:21 +0100:

>> Hi all,

>> 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.

> In England, baking parchment and grease-proof paper, are
> two different products not the same thing..

> Swiss chard is commonly called swiss chard in England too.

I think the blog, were it to cover the different terms used in different
countries, could be very useful. It is not necessary really to fight
about what are the most used words, even if that can be rather
entertaining..

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not