cher wrote:
> Is it???? good grief, and I was born and bred here believing that the
drain
> is the outside bit....the hole in the sink with the plug in it leading to
> the drain, a plug hole. 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..

Why yes, you absolutely must!!

<or drain hole... whichever one trips off the tongue the lightest>


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

My husband, his parents, his sisters, his aunts, uncles and cousins, all
still living in Blitey, call it a drain or drain hole. The drain pipe is the
outdoors part, according to them.

<of course, I was puzzled for the longest time by what a "hose pipe" is...>


> You'd be flipping lost if I spoke in true English Cockney

No, I wouldn't. At's me bet'er ahfs palaver, innit. 'E's a merry old soul,
but you know.

<oh, wait... does that meat that when he says "drain hole" he means
something else entirely...>


> or one of the
> Shire's Gaelic tongues.

Sorry again. True, it dates back to my grands and greatgrands but been
there,done that.


> As to your comments on vinegar etc, it's not as if we do this regular
every
> day or week or even monthly...but it'll shift things even grease, to bring
> whatever back to clean again.....should you ever get your things to the
> state where ordinary suds won't shift it.

But keep in mind that it's doing it by removing layers of metal, not by
actually cutting grease.

If you've a grease problem that detergent wont lift, you've got a different
animal indeed.


> >>English Major in me<<
> Don't think there is ever the fear of you being that, much as you seem to
> think you are.

Uhhhhh, you've lost me. Was I an English major? Yes. Without question.

Was I an English major in a Gilbert and Sullivan kind of way? Well, no.
You've got me there.


> As to your term of Pedantic. You couldn't be more right, you are!

Of course I right! I can't help it! I'm an English major!

<and that would apply to the G&S type, too>


> Still each to their own, I'm sure you can't help it. and no doubt there
is
> a skeleton somewhere in that cupboard of yours..

Of course there are. Still, I'm always impressed when the rebuttal to
correction is to point toward the ironclad certainty of dark personal
secrets held by the corrector. It's a facinating projection tactic. Very
interesting, especially when my response to your post lends no indictments
of skeletons anywhere.


> You'll be fine in
> time...it's a great healer. In the meantime I'll leave you to rattle your
> cage in peace, and prattle on, by yourself. Another English trait.

Tell me about it!

Nice to meet you, Cher.