Dear,
The way you can interpretate words can be very different. Mostly it is also based on the
words in your own language.
A nice example is the word stamp: a stamp for a letter or a trading stamp from the shop.
A lot of people in our country loves so much trading stamps, that when we are talking
about stamps we are meaning trading stamps.
We are always using the word postage stamps for letters.
Same thing we discover with the France language: "timbre" and "timbre-poste".
Also you will find differences between Belgium and the Neterlands in using words. Netherland
is using more words from other languages instead of creating an own one. Belgium is very creative
in it.
greetings.
btw: the dictionary link is a very good one. mostly we are looking in the Oxford or Webster
dictionaries.
[ 30 July 2002, 04:52: Message edited by: MCA ]
