[TAG] Re: Re: England was nice

[Mike Orr]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:43:47AM -0700, Heather Stern wrote:
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>>I gave a cheerful description of getting directions from local sorts in semi
>>rural to completely rural areas and made my English friends laugh: "My god,
>>you've been here all your life!"
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>"Head down 17, though the traffic light; go left 'round the bend until
>you get to where the gas station *used to be*..."
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petrol station  :)

But in Canada there are gas stations called Petro-Canada.  And outside 
Vancouver near the border there's a repair shop called Otto Mobiles.

They also have a great word for parking garage/car park:  parkade.