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

H. S. Teoh wrote, quoting John Cowan:

> > 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.
Not to mention the tractor, or the car.

> > 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".
Now *that* probably *would* cause a laugh.

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