Just a word about Navy showers....they are called that because on Navy ships sometimes fresh water is at a premium. In addition to drinking and cleaning, water is also used to fill the boilers which power the steam driven ships. The distilling plants on board which convert salt water to fresh cannot always keep up with demand on the smaller ships...or couldn't back in the old days. I am speaking from my experience on a cruise through the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean in 1980-81 on a US Navy ship launched first in 1943. As stated on the show by Grant, you take a Navy shower by turning on the water to get wet, turning off the water, soaping, then turning the water back on to rinse. The point was to get clean using as little water as possible.
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Groceries, Dallas and north Texas: GROSS rees. Texas dialects frequently deletes phonemes or entire syllables, especially the terminal g in ing endings.
Canadian: Moving to Vancouver was a light culture shock, especially spelling. My son observed "They spell long and talk short" ("our" endings, but social studies were "socials"). I was told, " You can spell it either way [US or UK] but bank drafts must be spelled 'cheque'." But check marks are generally called "ticks".
A bank draft ought not be called a check; they are similar but different. A draft is drawn by a person who doesn't own the account, and legally, the account owner can refuse the draft without committing a crime.