On Sun, 2 May 2010 18:33:45 -0400, Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:

> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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 :-)
>>
>> --
>>
>> James Silverton

> 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

i think it's magnanimous of the u.s. to allow them to do that.

your pal,
blake