I could have posted this in "Usage".
Just to give you a bit of background to this. We now have an American part to our family and just "to bring us all together" we had a large family Skype. As part of this were a few jokes. One from an American found favour on both sides of the Atlantic:
Q: "How do you dress for cold weather?"
A: "Take your pants off and go to bed?"
An interesting different reaction from each side!
American English
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Post by tony h » Sat Dec 30, 2017 9:12 pm
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With the right context almost anything can sound appropriate.
With the right context almost anything can sound appropriate.
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