"It's an orange."
"What colour is it?"
"It's green."
Hmmm. Well, I don't think I'll be buying that one then.
And then there was this.....
"I've got a big rubber for you, Miss Li!"
"Wow! That's a very big one! I really like it!"
Although my partner and I had been hired to add a touch of class to these materials with our elegant British accents, I am pretty sure that the writers had intended them to be in American English. And in American English, a rubber is...... Well, we couldn't think of any tactful way to explain it, so we left the studio staff in utter bafflement at our tearful, wheezing mirth.
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