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   OwenGlasgow (owenglasgow@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 25-May-2023 05:50:32 JST OwenGlasgow

   I always thought "half and half" was the American term for semi-skimmed, but I've just read that it's something completely different. So what do Americans call semi-skimmed?

   I'm married to one of you, I feel like I should know this kind of thing.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 25-May-2023 05:50:31 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @OwenGlasgow We have two options for semi-skimmed milk, called 2% milk and 1% milk.

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     OwenGlasgow (owenglasgow@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 25-May-2023 05:54:28 JST OwenGlasgow

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail Thank you. This shattered one of my long-standing assumptions. Now I'm wondering what else I've misunderstood.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 25-May-2023 05:54:28 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @OwenGlasgow I'm married to someone who lived in Cornwall for nearly a decade. In our house, we're never quite sure what we're talking about at any time. And any time I go back to the UK with her, "You call it $thing, we call it $other_thing" is an endless game everyone enjoys.

     For example, the shocked looks I get when I explain that, in the US, one does not "alight" from a train, but "exits" it. Or that we have highway exits and not "ways out".