Hi all, Ah, the wonders of modern technology. No, I didn't run the spell checker, but if I had, it wouldn't have helped. <grin> Take pity on a poor phonetic speller, my friends. Oui, c'est mousse, vraiment! "Some are born good spellers, some achieve good spelling, while others have good spelling thrust upon them." It's a cruel world indeed. <grin> Ann P. On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Tom Holloway wrote: > Ann Parsons said... > > >Britain. Pudding isn't at all the same thing to us. In the US pudding > >refers to what Britishers might call mouse. Whereas pudding to them, is > >more like cake is to us. When I was visiting England with my chorus I was > > I believe that the Romans ate mice, but even during the > darkest hours of wartime rationing we never had to eat > them! > > Ann - I think perhaps you mean a pudding we call 'mousse', > which is a French word for a sort of pudding made with cream. > > I serve up a lot of puddings here (in England) because my > family demands them, but mostly they ask for Jam Roly-Poly > or Spotted Dick - both of which are puddings made with suet. > > =============================== > Tom Holloway > The Chatback Trust > Tel: 01926-888333 Fax: -435534 > chatback@rmplc.co.uk > URL: www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/chatback/ > Ann K. Parsons akp@vivanet.com homepage: http://www.vivanet.com/~akp/index.html Professional On-line tutor Gardener/Administrator at GrassRoots MOO Bard and lover of words "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost."
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