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mariannina
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Panic!
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Hello dear friends, this morning my second graders were drawing a picture when a little girl asked me the permission to throw away this
then she asked me: "Teacher, what do you call this in English?"
Panic!!!
"Pencil chips" I answered...but I can �t remember what is the real name of
that thing! How do you call them?
Thank you/grazie!
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1 Oct 2010
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i_love_english
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or pencil scraps?
if you google them, you find results for both but I �m not a native so i don �t know which one is most in use...
steph
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1 Oct 2010
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cs1980
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Pencil scraps, of course! |
1 Oct 2010
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SueThom
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I suppose , like many other terms, what they �re called is dependent on where you �re from. I �ve only ever heard pencil shavings.
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1 Oct 2010
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almaz
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I �ve heard pencil shavings and pencil sharpenings and I recall hearing the word parings many years ago. I �ve never heard of pencil scraps but I like it. |
1 Oct 2010
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mariannina
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Is "pencil scraps" British English and "pencil shavings" American English?
I think I �ll teach both  Thank you  |
1 Oct 2010
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juliag
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As a British person I �ve never heard of pencil scraps, I would probably say pencil sharpenings, though pencil shavings sounds fine, too. |
1 Oct 2010
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sulekra
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I �ve also only heard of pencil shavings, though pencil chips sounds delicious
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1 Oct 2010
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edrodmedina
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Pencil shavings as when you shave wood from a door w/a plane. |
1 Oct 2010
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