Re: Trivia Questions

From: Ann Parsons (akp@VIVANET.COM)
Date: Thu Nov 14 1996 - 05:36:05 PST


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.
>
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Ann K. Parsons

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