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Pooh-Bah
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Haulier is new to me. In my experience, a trucker is a human being who drives a truck, and a hauler is a business engaged in the transportation of goods, although trucking company is used more frequently.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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I know dustmen (i've read my dickens, and know there is gold in the dust!) and would recognize dustmen as san men..
i even know what a skip is! In US, skip is a jumping sort of walk (as in skip, skip, skip to my lou, most commonly done by young girls --or jumping with a rope --as in jump or skip rope. there is some sort of geographic distribution as to who uses what word (in NYC is JUMP rope) (and there is also double dutch, a style of jumping with 2 ropes--for Years, this was a NYC and north east US specialy, but for the past few years, the japanese have been the champs at it)
Your skips are our dumpsters. and we sometimes dumpster dive(ie find useful stuff in the trash, and retrieve it) Is there an alliterative term for doing the same in skips?
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