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Old 02-Dec-2006, 15:55
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Default Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary
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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork View Post
The real question is why the Brits call sidewalks "pavement".
And why they call the drug-store "chemist's". How many such words have been renamed?
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