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Brethil
Half-elven
Mar 6 2015, 9:55pm
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Ah - so its the same meaning? Thanks S-D, saved me a Google. //
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Starling
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Mar 6 2015, 10:23pm
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Bringing a plate is a different thing to bringing a dish, if my googling is correct. We would bring a dish to a potluck meal. 'Bring a plate' is for morning tea or afternoon tea, so sweet or savoury finger food. Back in the day it would be 'ladies a plate'.
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Brethil
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Mar 6 2015, 10:24pm
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Ah. **'Tea'**. A difficult concept. //
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Glorfindela
Valinor
Mar 6 2015, 11:29pm
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We would talk about THE hospital
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… if talking about a specific hospital, but just 'hospital' if not specific.
Another thing I've recently noticed in speech in the UK is the extremely annoying 'So' at the beginning of many sentences in dialogue. Listening to the radio (Radio 1), some speakers (though generally not the very well educated ones) now use the word at the beginning of practically every sentence. It seems to have replaced 'Well' to a certain extent. I don't know whether this usage came from America.
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dormouse
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Mar 6 2015, 11:33pm
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Goodness! If someone said "bring a plate" to me I would -
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in all innocence - bring a plate. Nothing on it, just a plate.
If they said "bring a bottle" it would be full!
(This post was edited by dormouse on Mar 6 2015, 11:34pm)
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