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curious-- i use both whole wheat and brown bread..
Whole wheat is store/bakery bread. brown bread is home made-- and for me, most often a quick bread--whole grain (wheat and oats) irish soda bread.
but every once in a while, i will buy a can of New England style brown bread-- which is a steamed bread. at home, you put the batter into a can, cover it, and put the can(a coffee can is about the right size) in steam to cook. the bread is moist, and dark (almost like a plum pudding--but not quite)
commercially, its sold in cans..(but smaller cans) and you reheat it, in the can, (steam it again!) and then uncan and slice.
NE brown bread is whole wheat, corn(maize) and molasses bread. it often has raisins, too, and some spices, (ginger) but it's not sweet, or cake like.
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To an "average" Canadian (not meaning any slight to any who disagree), "brown" bread is what USns probably call "whole wheat" bread. (Yes, that's what it says on the bag, but my mom always calls it brown.) Nothing special, not in a can, home made quick bread, just whole wheat bread, whether store bought or not. It is the word used when taking an order in a restaurant: "Do you want that on white or brown bread?"
Now, another oddity: I've noticed we usually spell "mom" the USn way, but you don't usually hear it pronounced that way. I say "mum".
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NE brown bread, the kind of troy describes, was a tradition chez nous, usually the home-made variety. Served only at Saturday night supper (never called dinner) along with home-baked beans and cole slaw. Oooh! It's making me hungry.
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i think we did dinner vs. supper.so this might be a yart.. so what!
dinner is the main meal of the day.. in the country, it is often the midday meal, but for city workers, it is often the evening or last meal.
supper is the evening meal (and lunch is midday meal)
so you can have your dinner at lunch or at supper..
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lunch is midday meal) Oh yeah?  When I was at boarding school*, lunch was a bedtime snack. How's THAT for confusing? *run by Catholic nuns of German heritage
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Valet: pr val’it (and conversely Dr Bill, would you ever hear of a car vallaying service? – certainly not on this side of the pond I think!)
Fillet: pr fill’it (as already noted, a fish would never be described as other than fill’it’id)
I disagree on all counts.
I say val-lay, and it's a val-lay service, no -ing about it.
I say fil-lay, and a fish upon whom said operation has been carried out has been fil-lay'd. But I'd be in a bit of a fix if I had to actually spell that last one, in the formal writing-stuff-down-on-paper sense.
I'm from New England, but live in California, and I have even pronounced it this way when I've been in other countries, so this pronunciation must apply there too.
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I'm with Bingley, with one addition.
In picture framing, there is a thin ornamental strip that is often placed on the inside edge of matting or the frame itself called a fillet. Fill + et. However, I may be the only one who thinks "et" when I pronounce "et".
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I say "mum"
That's the word!!Aw-ww, Ted, ya done gone and TOLD everybody!
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so you can have your dinner at lunch or at supper..
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you can confuse this one still further as in some parts of the UK (mostly northern) your supper/dinner would be referred to as 'tea'.
When I was at prep school (under 13) this was taken a step further because you had 'low tea' (afternoon tea) and 'high tea' (evening meal).
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