Spelling, Slang, Location

[Benjamin]

My spell checker is trying to correct encyclopedic to encyclopaedic 
again!
> 

[deleted word I seem to have a mental block on the spelling of] it is 
actually right.  Though it should be ae dipthong (i.e. shoved 
together) like the oe in Phoenix.

> 
> Neil: "Butchers I knew about, but it's amazing how many odd 
sounding slang
> words turn our to be derived from Cockney rhyming slang."
> 
> I like CRS, but find that if I use it I get too many blank looks as 
few
> people around here understand it.
> 

These TLAs are dangerous you know, CRS = Co-operative retail 
something (services / supplies / store, I can't remember) just 'cos 
the Oxford Co-op has closed.  There is, by analogy a CWS.  
FCA is the most amusing though.  Unfortunatley I can't tell you what 
it  is.

> 
> Neil: "Benjamin, are you, perchance, another of Simon's 
Oxford 'china
> plates'?"
> 
> Yes. Though one that is finable in a different country!
> 

Who are the others here then (spotting the word 'another') and what 
do you mean by finable? 

- Ben, giving up working and going to lunch.

"All I've done is give you a book.  You have to have the courage to 
learn what's inside it." - Freida Joy Riley