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British and American Connotations
cpick6mo10

I (speaking American English) had difficulties on a project with another team (speaking British English) when we would agree to "table" something.  We we're all rather frustrated before we realized that I meant "set aside to deal with it later" while they meant "get into it now".

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/16285/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-expression-we-can-table-this

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