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    Quote Originally Posted by wbute View Post
    I will give a common farming one, you swath a paddock with a swather and what you have left are windrows. You dont use a windrower to windrow a paddock. This one is too far entrenched to ever change.
    Americanisation of english is another hate of mine. Combine is becoming the excepted word for header. We invented the bloody things and named them headers so thats what they are!
    SUV......come on.
    Well I was brought up in Britain and they used a combine harvester to harvest the corn...which is what they call crops (all crops) I am an Australian now and we strip the crops with a Header...

    But I do hate it when I go into a nice boutique type shop and they ask "are yas (sounding ewes) right..I usually say yes thanks, but would like to say I am not a sheep may I help you is far nicer...my mother was a pom, and corrected me all the time, I also hate"I haven't saw that in a while" which should be I have not seen that in a while...in saying that Rodney says I seen that on TV, and I cannot be bothered to tell him anymore...that is just him....
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    Agree with the yous thing Jennie!

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    Just copied this from some randoms post on the book lol.

    Lol I seen that...yous open yet

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