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Originally Posted by
freetors
I get slightly annoyed at hearing Brits' and Aussie's version of a knobby tire, the "knobbly".
They do the same thing for the carburetor. Our shorthand word is "carb", there's is "carby".
They both sound like something a child would say.
Mind you, "-arb" is a weird ending for a word.
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