[HPforGrownups] OOP - US/UK difference spotted

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 67767

At 01:41 +0000 on 07/06/2003, serenadust wrote about [HPforGrownups] 
OOP - US/UK difference spotted:

>I'm in the midst of my 3rd reading (this time the UK version) and I
>came across something that stopped me in my tracks.
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>On page 205, Fred and George are telling the trio about the horrors
>of Fifth year and George says: "...If you care about exam results,
>anyway. Fred and I managed to keep our *peckers* up somehow."
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>I immediately went to check my US version, since I was SURE that I'd
>have caught that expression if it was there and sure enough it
>reads: "Fred and I managed to keep our *spirits* up somehow."

The translation/usage is accurate. Pecker is a UK English term for 
what US English regards as Spirits.

The Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta "Trial by Jury" has the Defendant 
use the term to himself while trying to get his spirits up (while 
getting tried in the Court of the Exchequer for the alleged crime of 
Breach of Promise [ie: Breaking off an engagement). Sometimes a 
different term is substituted to make the line more understandable to 
a modern US audience.

Even if used in US English as a reference to an anatomical feature, 
it refers to the Nose not something located below the waist.

>Proximity/Merriam-Webster U.S. English Thesaurus
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>2 meaning(s) for Pecker
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>1.	(noun) the jaws of a bird with their projecting horny covering
>	(synonym) Bill, Beak, Neb, Nib
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>2.	(noun) the prominent part of the human face that bears the 
>nostrils and covers the nasal passage
>	(synonym) Nose, Beak, Proboscis, Smeller, Snoot, Snout
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>Interestinly, my computer Thesaurus has no British English entry for 
>the term (note even as a synonym of spirit):
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>Proximity/Collins British English Thesaurus
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>No Thesaurus entry for Pecker
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>	(alternatives) Pucker, Backer, Bicker, Pluckier, Beaker, 
>Pettier, Picture, Patter, Potter, Pitcher, Pater, Buckler, Powder, 
>Better, Poetry, Puckered
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>Proximity/Collins British English Thesaurus
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>8 meaning(s) for spirits
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>1.	(noun)
>	(synonym) feelings, humour, mood, morale
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>2.	(noun) [plural of spirit]
>	(synonym) airs, breaths, lives, souls, vital sparks
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>3.	(noun) [plural of spirit]
>	(synonym) attitudes, characters, complexions, dispositions, 
>essences, humours, outlooks, qualities, tempers, temperaments
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>4.	(noun) [plural of spirit]
>	(synonym) backbones, energies, enterprises, fires, forces, 
>grits, lives, resolutions, sparkles
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>5.	(noun) [plural of spirit]
>	(synonym) resolutions, resolves, wills
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>6.	(noun) [plural of spirit]
>	(synonym) atmospheres, feelings, humours, tenors, tones
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>7.	(noun) [plural of spirit]
>	(synonym) essences, intentions, meanings, purports, purposes, 
>senses, substances
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>8.	(noun) [plural of spirit]
>	(synonym) apparitions, ghosts, phantoms, spectres, sprites, visions