OT: City Names

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Sun Apr 18 02:20:53 1999

At 05:50 17/04/99 +0930, Geoff Roberts wrote:

>Classic example is a US exchange student we had here in the 70's.
>She was nearly ready to go home before many of us figured out her name was
>"Carol" and not "Kerryl" which is how it sounded to us.

Well I was at an American run management course last year in Newcastle. One
of the (male) attendees made the comment that he was cold and that he was
going to get a jumper. This caused a hysterical reaction by one of the
female presenters - apparently from her part of the USA a jumper is a dress!

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