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Years 12 and 13.
I am in the latter.
(, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 22:37, archived)
ah
/doesn't understand english names for a lot of stuff

like pudding
(, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 22:38, archived)
you don't understand pudding?

(, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 22:41, archived)

b3ta.com/talk/26600
(, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 22:45, archived)
lift = elevator
boot = trunk
trousers = pants
arse = fanny

I know that much.
(, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 22:42, archived)
but I'm not american either
pudding appears to be a lot of things that are more or less cylindrical and edible (or desserts).
(, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 22:44, archived)
My tattered copy of the Consise Oxford English Dictionary says:
Pudding n. 1. Soft or faily firm food consisting of ingredients mixed with or eclosed in flour or other farinaceous or cereal substance and cooked by boiling, steaming or baking, (HASTY, MILK, PLUM, YORKSHIRE, pudding); sweet (course of meal); the PROOF of the pudding.
2.Intestine of pig, etc. stuffed with oatmeal, blood, etc., (BLACK pudding). 3. Person or thing with pudding-like appearance etc. 4. (Naut.; also puddening). Pad, tow, binding, to prevent chafing etc. 5. ~-cloth, (in which some puddings are tied up for boiling); in the ~club, (sl.) pregnant; ~ face, large fat face; ~-head, stupid person; ~-stone, conglomerate rock of rounded pebbles in siliceous matrix.
(, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 23:11, archived)
faily firm
?

etc
(, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 3:09, archived)
you forgot pavement = sidewalk

(, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 22:45, archived)