Article: CORNISH PASTIES, MUSHY PEAS AND YADDA, YADDA...(LIFE & LEISURE)

Byline: SCOTT WILLIAMS New York Daily News

America and Britain truly are two cultures ``separated by a common language,'' as Winston Churchill once observed, but Jerry Seinfeld's explorations of the British language are a bit of a barney.

In fact, the British slang has some U.S viewers tearing out their Barnett Fair.

Here's a cheat sheet for the American Express commercials that open with Jerry before a London audience, bombing with the punch line: ``So I got off the elevator, cut in line, and said, `What is this, the seventh-inning stretch?' ''

Silence. ``Uh-oh,'' mutters Jerry. ``Bit of a culture clash.''

He should have ...

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