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For instance, adrenalin is also the common term in AE (not epinephrine ), though the latter is known; BE bath can be tub in AE but is usually bathtub ; an AE cookie is a BE sweet biscuit , but biscuit is a common alternative term in AE for a dry cracker (Remember Uneeda Biscuits ? They are crackers.); Americans bring up their children, as the British do, but they also raise or rear them; AE has both curtains and drapes , but they are different things: BE uses curtains for what AE speakers call drapes ; AE has both deck chair and beach chair , not, as implied, the latter instead of the former; likewise, AE has dressing gown as well as robe and bathrobe , but a dressing gown is more likely to be somewhat fancier; Americans know many games of solitaire , of which patience is just one; both crayfish and crawfish are used in AE, and it is about time that the old (British) fiction that Americans say railroad for what the British call a railway was put to rest: for at least two generations, one of the biggest companies in the US was called Railway Express .
A comparable moneymaker is the club deck, just above the first-tier seating.
For a view of the town’s steel and glass urban canyons and the Rocky Mountains looming on the western horizon, take the elevator to the observation deck of the 207-m (623-ft) Calgary Tower.
Of course, you probably didn't spend much time on the deck looking south because of the smell from the garbage cans.
References Arnold 1928; Beeson, Adams, and King 1983; Clark 1959; Dolan and Deck 1994; Dolan and Hinojosa 1994; Griffith 1985, 1988, 1992; Ponce 1993
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