DD will enjoy this
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I was being "pernickety".
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
So was I :P
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Henry Minute wrote:
pyjamas
This wasn't an English word - it's derived from the Persian payjama, and we took it from the Hindustani version.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
it's derived from the Persian payjama, and we took it from the Hindustani version
That's all very well but where did they get it from? I shall now don my Jodhpurs and retire to my Bungalow!
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I can only refer you to the link I referred to in my original post.
in British English its artEfacts. Since we bleedin invented the language (the clue is in the name) I would just like to point out that its also coloUr, aluminium, aeroplane, arse, moustache, pyjamas and one that you will love – Pernickety.
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But you forgot bollocks :doh:
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
This wasn't an English word - it's derived from the Persian payjama, and we took it from the Hindustani version.
Almost all English words are derived from other languages. That doesn't stop them being English words.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
It is not English word. It can be "English loan word" but it can not be "English word". English term for a word. Ah, it's confusing me. I quit. ;P
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But you forgot bollocks :doh:
Certainly not! I carry mine with me wherever I go, as I do with my pills!
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But you forgot bollocks :doh:
last time I checked there is no U in bollocks. That would be an anatomic anomaly. :~
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It was mean to be a provocation, in a joke style, for Brits, but looks like people got me too serious. I don’t care much about how people write colo(u)r, i write it color, since that’s how its written in Visual Studio :) and in school i never did learn English – so i adopt to what is mostly used in my environment. Yet still there is no U in color :P
we could agree on having at least one in colorful, could we? :)
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Phil J Pearson wrote:
and color isn't even a word
I've heard the yanks use it a few times ;)
Two heads are better than one.
That proves my point. ;P
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It is not English word. It can be "English loan word" but it can not be "English word". English term for a word. Ah, it's confusing me. I quit. ;P
Enver Maroshi wrote:
It is not English word. It can be "English loan word" but it can not be "English word".
That would be foolhardy, because every single English word we use today was either: 1. Introduced to England by invaders. 2. Added to the language after all the invasions. So all words except some those that fit category 2 would have to be classed as "loan words" -- that's more than nine-point-five-tenths of the language!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Henry Minute wrote:
pyjamas
This wasn't an English word - it's derived from the Persian payjama, and we took it from the Hindustani version.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
James Nicoll wrote:
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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