Thanks on vocab

[Amy Z]

Thanks for all the replies!  And for the references to Brit/Am 
dictionaries--those are gonna get bookmarked.

I just noticed that what appears in the US edition of CS as "it took 
ages to get the slime off" was originally "it took ages to shift the 
slime."  I love it--shift the slime!  What a great use of language! 
Now why did they think this would be beyond American understanding?

Amy Z
from Noo England, where we may talk funny but we aren't stoopid