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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Even more fuel

From: kenmerb@...
Date: 2002-09-26

In a message dated 09/26/2002 3:22:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kinchmusic@... writes:


For those of us in the UK
Tube = something to get to work on. Or not, as the case may be.
Mm...confusing this language of ours which both binds us together and divides
us occasionally.
Andy K


I have a friend who was vacationing in London, and an acquaintance told her that he'd come by and "knock her up in the morning", or something to that effect.  She said she was a bit disappointed to find that the phrase had a totally different meaning in the UK.

Ken M.