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Old Dec 8, 2015 | 11:32 pm
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Originally Posted by braslvr
Almost everyone I know in the US calls it brekkie at least occasionally.
Hang out with a lot of commonwealth expats, or have a couple of anglophile friends? I've heard it plenty from British and Aussie folks both expats living here and online and when I've been outside the US, but as I said, have literally never heard someone with an American dialect use it.

From a fellow yank, it would be at least as affected-sounding as calling a truck a lorry or a car's hood a bonnet.
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