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- From: carolin@carson.u.washington.edu (Caroline Marsh)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
- Subject: Re: seperate hot and cold water taps in the UK
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 01:13:45 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- trk@palm15.cray.com (Tim Kirby) writes:
-
- >"Nadine Smith" (nmsmith@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu) wrote:
- >:
- >: Could someone please tell a confused American (no jokes, please!)
- >: why the hot and cold water taps are seperate in the UK?
- >: And why if there is only one faucet is the hot and cold
- >: water kept seperate until it comes out of the tap?
-
- I always thought that separate taps were an older way of
- plumbing. I live in Seattle and have separate hot and
- cold taps.
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