"cher" > wrote in message
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> > Last I knew, it's called a drain in the UK.<
>
> Is it???? good grief, and I was born and bred here believing that the
drain
> is the outside bit....

Not at all. The "drains" are the entire system for waste water. A drain is
any opening or part of a receptor of waste water. The "outside bit" can be a
drain as part of the whole drains system.

> the hole in the sink with the plug in it leading to
> the drain, a plug hole.

That used to be a frequent, but not widely used terminology in the UK. It is
a rather common, though not vulgar, term.

> I must try to let everyone here in England know
> we've all been wrong all these years, and that those of us using this
term,
> must now use the U.S. term of drain..

As sarcasm goes, this is a very poor attempt. Sorry.

> Although I expect some do use this,
> depending on how long they've lived in England, and what part they come
from.

That's better.

> You'd be flipping lost if I spoke in true English Cockney or one of the
> Shire's Gaelic tongues.

I doubt it. Are you a Cockney? That is a very specific term. There are no
Gaelic toungues in the Shires. Forms of Celtic are spoken in Wales and
Cornwall. Gaelic (derived from Irish Gaeilge) is spoken in Scotland. No
celtic language has been spoken in England since the arrival of the Saxons.

Charlie