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@Foodbin Tenners? Wouldn't it be quicker and easier to just say tens?

@Xuan12 no 😂 we’re both British they’re tenners

I don't think I ever heard someone say tens where I live. They usually say tenners and stuff.

@Foodbin Oh no....the British. Are you going to say LEFtenet at me even though it's spelled lieutenant?

@Xuan12 no I’ll just slap you when you dare spell doughnut like donut

@Mildreadful At least it's phonetically conceivable. And I shall slap you back for disrespecting the letter R.

@Xuan12 🤔 Why would I spell out lieutenant instead of just saying the word lieutenant. That's just pure idiocy there.

@Foodbin Indeed, why do the British spell?

@Xuan12 this is my favOURite kind of conversation

@Mildreadful I have no qualms with the "ou" thing. I mean, diphthongs in English have no standards anyway, but "ou" certainly isn't the worst of them.

@Xuan12

Besides, why do you guys, add an unnecessary "U" in words like honor or color.

By the way, I use the term "you guys" here very carefully. My wife's grandfather was from St. Ives in Cornwall and left the tin mines there to work in the copper mines in the Upper Peninsula if Michigan in 1891. My wife has gone there to do genealogy - as well as in Penzance and Truro - about 4 times over the past 40 years since her days in University. To sound right for you, I left out the "the" that most Americans would add.

Plus, after finishing her masters in Public Health in 1984 - specializing in epidemiology and HIV/AIDS - she lived in London for two years and worked in the NHS. She tells me that London is her favorite city in the world - and she travelled extensively before our marriage 19 1/2 years ago when she was 42.

She calls London her "Spiritual Home", while she calls Cornwall "The Land of My People"!

We flew out of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada on February 15 of this year, and into Heathrow. After a week and a half of being a tour guide for me in London - I loved the city, the museums, and the "100 Club" (where the Sex Pistols got there start - and my wife's watering hole in the mid 80's); and in Cornwall - I loved St. Ives, Penzance, and the Eden Project.

Given Gilbert & Sullivan's musical and Daphne Du Maurier's book "Jamaica Inn", it was interesting when my wife discovered years ago that two of her ancestors had been hung as pirates - "wreckers".

I flew home on February 25, while my wife stayed until March 28, meeting friends of hers in London, Scotland, Wales, and Paris, as well as doing more genealogy in Cornwall.

Also, why do you pronounce "a-lum-i-num" "al-u-min-i-um"?

Best wishes to our English Cousins. As far as that goes, my wife does have some distant relatives in Cornwall.

By the way, no matter what issues you guys might have with May, I would trade you Trump for her in a heartbeat!

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