Telephone line numbers, prefixes, and area codes
Frank Erskine wrote:
My current "favourite" Americanism is the announcement on a delayed
aeroplane that "the airplane will be taking off momentarily".
You hear "for a moment"; we hear "in a moment".
Well, we hear the stewardess begging us not to panic because she really
has no idea how much longer it will be till we have a take-off slot.
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