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Quote by Alexei Sayle
If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words

If you travel to the States… they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say elevator, we say lift they say drapes, we say curtains they say president, we say seriously deranged git. – Alexei Sayle

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