Maybe it is the British influence or something else, but there are many English words and phrases that they use here in a way that Americans, at least, wouldn’t do. If the traffic is bad, you say you are caught in a jam. You don’t live in that neighborhood, you stay there. The plug for the sink is a stopper.
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I am familiar with the words traffic jam and I have heard of a plug being called a stopper...
Bill Strehlow
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