Are Canadians not North Americans too? I can understand that North Americans from the USA might not understand the finer points of the English language, but...
Charlie, I am in North America and you are not. I know what people here generally understand, and you do not. I have better access than you do to ordinary...
It's not the "suss out" that makes the difference. As you can see, your Oxford designates the term as British slang. None of the four definitions given in...
A bio of the "echt americkĂ˝" compiler of the "Online Etymology Dictionary" http://www.etymonline.com/columns/bio.htm Gerry ... -- 7 Old Shoreham Road Brighton...
There is a simple solution to your problem - now you know what it means you might want to use the phrase on occasion, unless you can think of something else...
Actually Suss out is used in Canada. I am not saying it is common, but I doubt you could find an English-native Canadian who would not know what it means. So...
They're not. And don't assume that they consider their language to be particularly "British". At a company where I worked, Canadian clients chewed out our...
Canadians are not North Americans??? Is this really what they teach in US schools? if so, I fear for the future of this planet. Sorry Jamie, but you might have...
Partridge does not give the national origin of this expression or the country where it is used. You're assuming that American etymological dictionaries cover...
First I have to figure out how the hell to pronounce it, and then I have to decide it's more useful than some more vivid expression that people already use....
No idea what 'boxwallah' means, but it sounds good. I shall make a point of using it some time today. As previously suggested, you should try using 'suss out'...
Where did I ever say that Canadians are not North Americans? No, they don't teach that in US schools. If anything, the Europeans misperceive Canadians as...
A boxwallah is what one of my Bengali students refers to as a "lunch carrier". He's a guy who's paid to pick up your lunch from your wife at home and bring it...
At my London school "bookwallah" was the term used to describe the boy whose duty was to collect up textbooks. (Mind you, British India wasn't only 15 years...
In an attempt to lighten things up a bit, the wallah bit in book/boxwallah, alth pronounced differently, must have Valassky puvod - valach/gelding being the...
... Sorry but this is simply not true. Back then, you asked whether "the mains" is used in British English. One or two of us took the trouble to inform you...
Yes, some of you explained to me very nicely that it was, in fact used in the UK. Then a Czech started insisting to me that the term is most definitely common...
Just because a word is not used in American English (whether North American or not) doesn't mean it is not international. International: 'something (a company,...
ne myslím že to Valašský původ není Wallah Indian or informal - a person of a specified kind or having a specific role origin = Hindi suffix vala - doer...
'Fraid not. As I indicated, it came into English at the time off British imperial rule in India, which was known as "the Raj" from the Hindi word for "reign",...
... No it's not true. I've just had a look back at the thread (as I obviously have nothing better to do with my time) and no one insisted that at all. Simon...
Does anyone know someone in the Czech Republic suffering from rheumatoid arthritis? An agency is asking me to find 5 or so sufferers for a 30 minute interview....
Wonders will never cease - they have confirmed USD 75 which isn't bad. From what I can tell it is going to be a 30 minute interview some time after 12th July...
I was just joking and hoping it would provide distraction.. you didn't think I was being serious? M ... From: "Gerald Turner" <turner.gerald@...> To:...
No, but just in case ;) G ... -- 7 Old Shoreham Road Brighton Sussex BN1 5DQ U.K. Tel/fax: ++ 44 1273208484 To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a...
You must have looked up a different instance of the same rant, because I am positive that a Czech claimed that "mains" was used in the United States. I forget...
