Re: Help please


"Jpinny" <jpinny@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The Traveller wrote:
Make up a bait box - or - fill up a bait-box

Which of these sentences are correct please. Can I say 'make up' a bait
box

Edith Forgotten



If you're making a packed lunch, you're 'making up a bait/bait box'.
That's the authentic vernacular. 'Filling' it is accurate, but not
authentic.

Hope I never forget...

Jp


Oh dear! Here was I thinking of a fishing bait box. Presumably this bait
box is an Americanism?

Rex.


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