Would someone please enlighten me as to how ice can "dilute" plain water?

Bring this thread up again, most interesting examples of the differences between English English and American English for non-English speakers, better than staying at ESL classes for couple years.

JudyC from Lecce

It's EFL in English English, English as a Foreign Language.

Avoid celebrating May Morning in Oxford like the Plague! Most of the locals do (I write as an Oxonian). Unless you are one of the students getting steadily inebriated throughout the previous night at one of the college balls it really is a weird kind of triumph of tradition over the pleasure principle to try to participate. For the casual tourist 'seeing in' this celebrated event involves getting up at some god forsaken hour to drag yourself to Magdalen Bridge to witness some brief choral singing from the top of the College Tower there at the crack of dawn. No sooner has it started than the singing stops and everyone begins to depart and disperse on their way home. Apart from some groups of Morris Dancers (aaargh!) and drunken Oxford students hurling themselves from the bridge into the water that's pretty much it ... fun, eh? Don't do it! Alan.