My state, NJ, is under an 8pm curfew. This applies to restaurants and bars and the like, but I'm teaching from home, anyway out of an abundance of caution.
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UK universities are rapidly moving towards online only for teaching and assessment, and I expect most will be closing campuses completely in the next fortnight (my own was about as busy today as it would be in the middle of a vacation period).
I've brought my plants home from the office today so that I don't have to worry about them dying of dehydration over the next couple of months (because my guess is that I will be working from home for at least that long).
I'll add that to my "two peoples separated by a common language" collection(I had to look up "fortnite". LOL. We don't use it here. If I used it, people would think I was all 1800's)![]()
I'll add that to my "two peoples separated by a common language" collection.
My favourite is "pavement": the curious symmetry between American usage (the paved strip that cars drive on) and English usage (a paved area beside the road that people walk on) can produce disconcerting effects whichever way it is misunderstood. Whereas most of them are things that only one side would ever say, and the other simply finds puzzling (or occasionally shocking).
dittoPants seems to have different meanings on each side of the big pond as well
I have not confirmed this and do not know if it is state or county level, but limiting gatherings to 250 people has been dropped to 50 where I live in Kansas today. That will pretty much close all restaurants and the like. The larger retail outlets will also be effected.
ours bars were ordered closedToday our prime minister recommended that people avoid going to bars, clubs etc. He said that he was not going to order them to close, but would expect them to do so voluntarily. As owners of such establishments have pointed out, if he orders them to close many will be covered by insurance, but if they close voluntarily they won't be.
"Pants" is one that most people know has a different meaning (certainly this side of the Pond, since it comes up quite often in TV shows and movies). If you want to see a Brit's jaw drop use the American colloquialism for a small zipped bag worn around the waist on a strap...![]()
Yeah, that here too. They did have the foresight to exempt restaurants that weren't licensed for takeout / delivery to allow that. I'm not sure if its a good thing they allowed it or a bad thing they need a license in the first place.One of the other completely disparate word usages comes from the byproducts of iron and steel smelting, commonly known in the U.S. as "slag". In the UK not so much.![]()
"Under the guidance of the Department of Health (DOH), using his authority under the state’s COVID-19 disaster declaration order, Governor Tom Wolf today ordered all restaurants and bars to close their dine-in facilities at 12:01 AM on Monday, March 16 ..."
At least we can still get take-out (or as they say on the other side of the pond "take-away")
Pants seems to have different meanings on each side of the big pond as well
I have not confirmed this and do not know if it is state or county level, but limiting gatherings to 250 people has been dropped to 50 where I live in Kansas today. That will pretty much close all restaurants and the like. The larger retail outlets will also be effected.
I presume the food item can also be a piece of firewood, but I'm having trouble with the aviation term.