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- What does Chap when it describes a person? [closed]
However, 'chap' here is informal, just a less highbrow remote replacement for 'person', and (from the context, which hints at say a Bertie-Wooster-like association) having a (dated) British upper-class connection
- Whats the difference between bloke, chap and lad?
chap — " (British) fellow Origin of chap: chapman" lad — "a male person of any age between early boyhood and maturity" So, it seems, that lad can be related only to a young person While chap and bloke to any male person My British fellow said: Chap is more delicate; bloke is rougher a bit Chap is posh, bloke is common
- single word requests - Feminine Forms for chaps and blokes - English . . .
(Source: Can a woman be a chap?, Patricia T O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman, Grammarphobia, 15 May 2019) Increasingly there is criticism of using potentially gendered terms such as "guys"; you can argue if they are gendered, but there is still the risk of excluding women or upsetting people
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The word "rummun," as WS2 observes in his answer, is found occasionally in the writings of the famous veterinarian author James Herriot, who spent decades tending to animals belonging to the residents of the Yorkshire Dales in northern England (specifically Darrowby or Thirsk) If a client said to the vet, "It's a rummun, Mr Herriot, he or she meant, "It's a strange case, Mr Herriot " In
- Is it offensive to refer to someone as a bird? [closed]
Calling a lady a bird was commonplace in the late 1900s Now it's less so, but the British have a habit of reviving these types of words to use playfully, so people will say stuff like "no problem chap", despite chap being very dated generally These revivals tend to be localised, in both time and space, as well
- Is there a standard symbol for denoting a chapter in a citation?
The standard abbreviations are Ch and Chap …or at least, if there is such a symbol, Unicode doesn’t know about it yet — and Unicode is pretty comprehensive, including characters as diverse as the inverted interrobang ⸘, biohazard sign ☣, and snowman ☃, not to mention the Shavian alphabet and much, much, much more
- What exactly does tally ho mean? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
@MichaelOwenSartin: To add to the wikipedia article "tally-ho" comes French taïaut or tayaut evolved from Middle French ta-ho formed from two onomatopœic words: ta that was the cry to stimulate the animals and ho a rallying cry It was used in foxhunting to signal the beast, and also in classical French to expose someone to public condemnation
- single word requests - Female equivalent of fellow - English Language . . .
If sistren is the female equivalent of brethren, what is the female equivalent of fellow? Words usually paired are: guy gal; man woman; boy girl; lad lass; brethren sistren; fraternity sorority; b
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