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by amagumori 2143 days ago
Yeah, dish soap is soap for washing dishes. Us Americans can get pretty craaazy with our naming conventions!
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> Us Americans can get pretty craaazy with our naming conventions!

This really goes both ways. :) Wait until you find out about "public schools" in the UK, or at least England.

(They're independent private schools which are not government-funded, and are in fact far less public than government-funded state schools. As I understand it, they came to be known as "public" because they were successors to traditional homeschooling in a private environment.)