Re: Bunty.

You don't need to know English. 'Bint' is quite a common slang word in
British English, although I assume it was originally borrowed from
Arabic. If you informant doesn't recognise it, I guess that either:

(a) he's not from the UK

or

(b) he's from an older generation and hasn't picked up on its entry into
English slang
> Den 20. jun. 2008 kl. 17.26 skrev Peter Collier:
>>
>>
>> I just love 'Bintland' - it conjures up such a
>> marvellous mental image of some kind of theme park of
>> 'ill repute'.
>
> I see, so the connection is that obvious. I thought 'bint' was rather
> an obscure word. At least Matthew Reilly, my latest translation
> victim, seems to think you need to be somewhat familiar with Arabic to
> recognise it. But Reilly doesn't seem to be very knowledgeable about
> many things...
>
> Seems I need to redo this morning's work. But that will have to be
> another time.
>
> LEF
>

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