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Originally Posted by ciburri
None taken Dave! Thanks for correcting me! There is only so much spell checker can do for me!
Did I tell you a funny story when a the best looking and most popular girl asked me for a "gum" in my first semester in High School in US? I handed her an eraser! The entire class including a professor went !!! Hey I got a last laugh! I got a relationship out of it to every man's envy!
In Croatia, we call an eraser a "gum" and chewing gum is a "chewing gum" or a "bubble gum"translated directly! |
And to tie everything together, there are "gumboots", the name for rubber boots in South Africa. Pure rubber is known as "gum rubber", and high quality drafting erasers (gum erasers) are made of gum rubber.