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Tampons, for instance, can be delicately referred to with English words such as `tea-bag' tiibagu , `cracker' kuraka , `wireless microphone' wairesumaiku, or `vanilla (ice-cream cone)' banira . Another taboo subject, condoms, can be touched on with playful metaphors such as: `globe' gurôbu, `raincoat' reinkôto, or `cover for Mr. John' jon-kun kaba .
That, as we all know, is a forlorn hope (to abuse a Dutch cliché): those who “know” that when two or more people or things are the subject of a verb you have to use were , not was , regardless of the context, are like those who “know” (like the people at Elizabeth Arden) that millennium is spelled with one n, who “know” that it is Parmagiana , not Parmigiana (like the people at Burger King), and who have no doubt that baking soda, baking powder, washing soda, and ice-cream soda are all the same thing.
On entering the Naval Academy in 1944, I found that a small ice-cream bar in the basement of Bancroft Hall (immidiately under the main entrance and limited to upperclass midshipmen) was semi-officially known as “The Gedunk” (pronounced “gee-dunk,” with a hard g )--although the wares themselves were never called gedunks, but “chocolate sodas,” “sundaes.”
There’s also a good ice-cream shop on the east side of the square.
But the image is colored, too, by the existence, in both AE and BE, of a type of light, mobile hydraulic crane provided with a basket or platform enabling one to approach a tall structure (like an American ice-cream sundae) from above to pluck the cherry from the top.
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