Re: Re: cooperative testers are such a joy!

At 02:58 PM 5/09/2005, you wrote:

>On the other topic - an eraser is called a "rubber" in UK English (at
>least that's what my English teacher in 5th to 9th grade said).
>Imagine the look on the high school sophomore's face whom (in a year
>I spent in a NJ high school) I asked if I could borrow a rubber...
>(the thing is, I didn't understand why he reacted so strangely, so
>told him that I'd only need it a few minutes - and would give it back
>to him when I was done - somehow, this failed to reassure him at all.)

Priceless :-)

Andrew

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