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From: lazeldes@wlcrjs.UUCP (Leah A Zeldes)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: "Silverware"
Message-ID: <663@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 08:55:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  4 08:55:02 1985
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Reply-To: lazeldes@wlcrjs.UUCP (Leah A Zeldes)
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In article <1860@sdcrdcf.UUCP> barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) writes:
>
>     Hungry?  Get out the silverware (probably made of stainless steel).
>Department stores have coined the term "flatware" to indicate stainless steel
>silverware.  (And what on earth do you call a phrase like "stainless
>steel silverware"?)


	These are Americanisms.  I noted when I was in England last year that
they call eating utensils "cutlery," which here refers almost exclusively to
knives.

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					Leah A Zeldes
					...ihnp4!wlcrjs!lazeldes

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