One of the most amusing things about living in New England is that the natives use different words for things that I've always known as something else. They use frosting instead of icing on cake, eat stuffing instead of dressing at Thanksgiving, and drive around rotaries instead of circles. Perhaps the most intriguing linguistic choice is New Englanders' name for the average shopping cart: carriage. It sounds so fancy and stuffy for something you push around a grocery store. (At least the sign is polite . . .)
Wow . . . I've already made it one month with this project. Only 335 days left!
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