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Re: CHAT: Education words in various English dialects // was"Mister"

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 16:22
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:44:30AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Adrian Morgan wrote: > > > I mention this because it's another education word, but of course there > > are many trans-oceanic differences/overlaps, even among such seemingly > > innocent words as "shed", "lemonade" and countless others. > > What's the "shed" problem?
You can shed hair, and some animals shed their skin; however, you can also store the lawn-mower in the shed.
> I know about "lemonade", and about the trouble with > the American hackish expression "go root" (= "assume super-user capability > on a Unix system").
[snip] Heh. Nowadays, it has been shortened to "root", and used like a regular verb: "I rooted the system" = "I broke into the system and managed to gain super-user access". T