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From: petolino@chronon.UUCP (Joe Petolino)
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Subject: Re: translation wanted from MontyPythonEnglish to American English
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 20:08:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 20 20:08:20 1986
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>I'm interested in the word "grunties". What does it mean? It is in 

I once heard an Australian use a word that sounded like 'grundies'
when referring to his underwear.  Could be the same word.

This brings up an interesting point - both Australians and Americans
use a 'd' sound for the letter 't' in certain words, but the set of words
for which this is done is different in the two dialects.
E.g. Americans often pronounce then number 40 as 'fordy';
Australians often pronounce then number 14 as 'fordeen'.