I don’t know if it’s regional, but some people might think you were talking about a fitting room, like in a clothing store.

Same in Dutch: sinaasappel

But that’s what he said? I don’t understand your comment.

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You can’t just compare the dollar value of items across countries when median incomes and cost of living vary so much. The same dollar has different buying powers in different countries.

I’m pretty sure the current government, who fought against apartheid, is not “butthurt” about the previous government being sanctioned for apartheid.

English is not the only language with homonyms.

Then you might as well call him Swiss. He was even in an English school. And I thought the mine was in Zambia.

Since when is he an Afrikaner? I doubt he can even speak a full sentence of Afrikaans. It’s slightly offensive that you just used an entire demographic group as an insult.