British vs. US spelling/phrases (SPOILER)

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Pinguthegreek" 
<pinguthegreek at p...> wrote:
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>   I'd love to know exactly what a TOERAG is. I noticed that Lily 
Evans 
>   didn't hesitate to use this (presumable) insult toward James 
Potter.
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>   Toerag is only a mild insult. But at their age the only utterable 
one !
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>   Michelle
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Yes, well, but, mild though it may be, what exactly does it mean? It 
sounds ... like...flapping skin or something. Better to be called a 
toerag than to be hit by Stinksap, though.

Anne U
(whose new motto is "Mimbulus Mimbletonia numquam titillandus";-)