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Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optic... by robocat on Saturday July 06, 2019 @04:51PM (#20371865)
> No one says "resealable sandwich bags", they say ziploc bags.

Everyone says resealable bags. I've never even heard the word ziploc. In New Zealand.

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Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optic... by mcphage on Saturday July 06, 2019 @07:37PM (#20372697)
In the US, they’re always referred to as ziploc bags. If you called them something else you’d get some confused expressions.
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Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optic... by jjeaff on Thursday July 11, 2019 @02:45PM (#20414241)
Do they also not use hyperbole in New Zealand?

Perhaps no one in New Zealand, but New Zealand has the population of a small US state.

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