"Ga i fenthyg dy rwber?"

Translation: May I borrow your eraser?

[AnCatDubh]

Americans are probably taken aback by this...

[rmcode]

Yes and really the English word 'rubber' is disappearing from the language, in the context of school equipment, and being replaced by 'eraser'. Thanks for pointing this out, I've changed them all to 'eraser' as the best translation.

[AnCatDubh]

Reminds me of the time I was tutoring a kid, teaching her English... We went over school equipment vocab and I needed to give her the English equivalent of מחק mákhak. I thought about it a bit and said it‘s ‘rubber’ in the UK and ‘eraser’ in the US and I reeeaaally hope she remembers...

[rmcode]

Yes, the other way around could be embarrassing :-)