Timeline for How would one use the phrase 'kitchen roll'?
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| Jun 23, 2015 at 23:38 | comment | added | Steven Littman | @Josh61--Paper towels. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 22:39 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @JasonInVegas As far as I'm concerned, squares form a subset of rectangles. Have you any evidence to back up your strange claim? | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 21:05 | comment | added | ScotM | I'd be less likely to use kitchen roll in referring to a roll of paper towels than a buttermilk biscuit. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 20:30 | comment | added | Dan Bron | @Josh61 Just paper towels. Doesn't matter if they're on a roll or in a stack, or if they're in the kitchen or in the bathroom. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 20:16 | comment | added | user66974 | @StevenLittman- What do you call a kitchen roll in U.S.? | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 20:10 | comment | added | TimR | The marketing department respectfully disagrees. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 20:06 | comment | added | user66974 | @TimRomano - I think you are right from a geometrical perspective, not a big difference anyway. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 20:01 | comment | added | JasonInVegas | Of course, in the UK, a "square" means any rectangle. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 19:59 | history | edited | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2015 at 19:57 | comment | added | TimR | Clearly the Cambridge lexicographers are not keeping pace with the latest developments in kitchen hygiene and domestic economy. It is common to find kitchen rolls now where the distance between perforations is half the width of the towel, so that for small spills an entire square need not be used. The definition should say "rectangular pieces" not "square". | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 19:56 | comment | added | Steven Littman | Funny how this British dictionary claims that this phrase is used in the US. Not! | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 19:50 | history | answered | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |