[LMB] Ot: was potter free list: now book-swamping

[Elizabeth Holden]

--- Ibis <ibarhis at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Thinking about the image - can you be swamped with books?

Is this a regional difference in usage, or am I witnessing a joke?  I'd talk about being swamped
with work (usually), swamped with memories, swamped with Christmas cards - no sense of wetness to
it at all. Don't Americans talk about being swamped unless they're talking about swamps?

confused -

namaste,
Elizabeth

not even sure if it's Americans who are commenting on the different usage, but getting that
impression