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Author Topic: LYLE'S GOLDEN SYRUP  (Read 9400 times)

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Re: LYLE'S GOLDEN SYRUP
« Reply #45 on: February 02, 2010, 01:56:56 am »

See, we would call those prawns.

And you would be wrong.  Those are shrimp.
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Re: LYLE'S GOLDEN SYRUP
« Reply #46 on: February 02, 2010, 02:16:25 am »

We're getting dangerously close to a prescriptivism vs. descriptivism incident.

I am locking this thread as a preventative measure.
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