Comments on: A trail of corncrumbs.

By: ferrets

ferrets — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:21:35 +0000

Huh, till is one of those words I can skim over and understand, but when asked the meaning I have no clue. Cash register makes sense I suppose. CORNFLAKES AT THE FLORIST, WOO!

By: Finicky Penguin

Finicky Penguin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:02:34 +0000

300, you say?

THIS. IS. CORN FLAKES!

By: Jacques

Jacques — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:52:43 +0000

I’d just like to point out that we use metres on this side of the farkin’ pond too (look up, well north Funnily enough though, most of us still refer to height/weight using imperial measures. Except for the younguns, I have no idea how tall my son is

FWIW, till is common here in Quebec too.

By: Ames

Ames — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:38:36 +0000

300 yards… kind of puts Raisin Bran’s “two scoops” to shame.

By: UhHuh

UhHuh — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:38:48 +0000

Cornflakes are a cereal. Hoping your story turns out to be a serial too

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:43:24 +0000

Haha, well, Steph, I’ve worked both retail and food services in the US and was still at a loss for a definition. Perhaps it’s just my state/portion of US.

By: Jasmine Rose

Jasmine Rose — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:06:53 +0000

Yes, they use meters on this side of the pond. Except the UK, that is!

By: Steph

Steph — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:44:18 +0000

Anybody who has ever worked retail or food services in the US knows that a till is your cash register. I.e; At the end of your shift, you count out your till to make sure it matches up with the sales report.

By: wb

wb — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:44:29 +0000

The cash register is the till. I’ve lived in the Northwest USA all my 5 decades and have heard that word used my whole life as interchangeable with cash register (or whatever box the cashier puts money into and makes change from).

Yards and meters are similar in length, with the meter being just a few inches longer than a yard, so you can pretty much equate yards and meters.

By: prying1

prying1 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:19:41 +0000

300 yards?

1 football field (American game not the Soccer game) is 100 Yards. – Three football fields? I should think the pigeons would have disrupted the trail…

I gotta wonder about this one. Don’t they use meters instead of yards and feet across the pond?