luggage/package

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Angliholic

#455822 Sat, 22 Dec 07 02:09 AM

When Helen travels, she always takes a lot of luggage/package.

Do both luggage and package amount to each other in the above? Thanks.

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Mister Micawber

#455835 Sat, 22 Dec 07 02:42 AM

No, a package is an individual parcel, not necessarily for travelling. Luggage = baggage.

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Angliholic

#455854 Sat, 22 Dec 07 03:22 AM

Thanks, Mister.

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Marius Hancu

#455947 Sat, 22 Dec 07 11:14 AM

Package is used in shipping.

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Yoong Liat

#456064 Sat, 22 Dec 07 06:52 PM

'luggage' is BrE; 'baggage' is AmE.

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Kooyeen

#456106 Sat, 22 Dec 07 08:39 PM

Yoong Liat wrote:
'luggage' is BrE; 'baggage' is AmE.

Hi,
I've never understood the difference. My dictionaries are always so confusing, one says "This is American!", another says "This is British!", another one says nothing, and so on... May they all burn by spontaneous combustion! LOL ("by"?)

Are both used in the US? Do you think one is more common? Thanks Smile [:)]

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Mister Micawber

#456204 Sun, 23 Dec 07 06:17 AM

This AmE speaker uses both indiscriminately.

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Yoong Liat

#456227 Sun, 23 Dec 07 09:39 AM

Kooyeen wrote:
Yoong Liat wrote:
'luggage' is BrE; 'baggage' is AmE.

Hi,
I've never understood the difference. My dictionaries are always so confusing, one says "This is American!", another says "This is British!", another one says nothing, and so on... May they all burn by spontaneous combustion! LOL ("by"?)

Are both used in the US? Do you think one is more common? Thanks

What I wrote in my earliest post is based on the definition in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. It states that 'baggage' is AmE.

Yoong Liat

Kooyeen

#456352 Sun, 23 Dec 07 04:16 PM

I see, thanks. I'll use one at random Smile [:)]

What I wrote in my earliest post is based on the definition in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. It states that 'baggage' is AmE.

Yes, I have that one too. It says "luggage" is "especially British".
But Longman Dict. of Contemporary English says "luggage" is used in both varieties. Go figure. Those dictionaries never agree... I'm afraid it's because there are several kinds of American English, so if one is based on "New England English" and the other on "West Coast English", there sure are differences. Smile [:)]

Kooyeen

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