Today, I had a nice young man approach me and ask for me to write something other than a name. He told me he was in year six in school (Sixth grade) and his teacher wanted a souvenir that said Year 6 on it. However, in order to lower the price, I was to draw an abbreviation for "year six". What he said to me, literally, was "Can you write it as 'yuh urr six'?" I said "excuse me?" We went back and forth for a bit, and he thought I was confused on the number six. Finally, I figured out that "Yuh Urr" is this Brit's way of saying "Y slash R". Wow.
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