More Britishisms?

[alice_loves_cats]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "grannybat84112"
<grannybat at h...> wrote:
> Kathryn replied to me:
> 
> > > Car boot...is this the equivalent of what Rita SKeeter referred 
> > > to as a "bring and fly sale?" What Yanks call a swap meet?
> > >
> > > Grannybat
> > 
> > Uh, possibly? The problem is that I understand your terminology 
> > about as well as you get mine, 
> > 
> > Car Boot Sale - Event where people turn up to sell stuff (you get
> > professional dealers at them nowadays as well as 'amateurs') 
> > originally out of the boot (trunk) of a car but generally on tables 
> > now -  they almost always start at a ridiculous hour in the morning
> > .... They range from school events ...
> > to regular weekly events covering vast areas of space, full of
> > crowds of people 
> 
> Yup, that's a swap meet, all right. In the States they're often held 
> at defunct drive-in movie lots, or in sports stadiums off season. 
> Thanks for that.
> 
> Maybe this is how that Muggle woman picked up the magical tea set 
> that Arthur had to sort out: The old witch died and her grandkids 
> sold off the residue of the estate at the regional car boot. 
> 
> Granny


Now Alice:

There was actually a part in "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" in which she
sold of some stuff from the attic at the school sale. Needless to say
 they were all magical and caused all sorts of havoc...

Alice