Best Release Practices and the word "fortnight"

[Neal Campbell]

While we lived in Belgium, my wife was complaining how cold it was in
mid-January to a Brit ex-pat and said she was "freezing her fanny off" and
the ex-pat almost fainted. She learned that their understanding of the word
Fanny was backwards from our definition!


Neal Campbell
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Lynn Fredricks <
lfredricks at proactive-intl.com> wrote:

> > And there, surely, lies the fundamental difference between
> > British rubbers and North American rubbers:
> >
> > the former are used to correct mistakes,
> >
> > the latter to prevent them.
> >
> > What is, arguably the funniest thing of all is that the
> > literal translation of the Bulgarian word for what North
> > Americans call 'rubbers' is 'preservative'
> > . . .
> >
> > and I always thought that was something you put in jam!
>
> It feels good to have a good laugh in the afternoon :-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lynn Fredricks
> President
> Paradigma Software
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