Lowlands-L: Beyond the Pale: A border-crossing guide for language learners
Lowlands-L: Beyond the Pale: A border-crossing guide for language learners

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Pahdon me, suh. You don’t happen to have a rubber on you, do you?In colloquial US English, “rubber” means “condom.” In other English varieties it means “(pencil) eraser.”

 

 

 

 

 

Mike W. Morgan (Member of Lowlands-L)
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India, March 31, 2008

 

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