British usage of “cha”, “char” or “chai” to mean “tea” By happenstance, I stumbled upon the words cha, char and chai in the dictionary today, all defined as meaning tea in informal British English I lived and worked in London for some time, but never
What does gotcha mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Gotcha actually has several meanings All of them can be derived from the phrase of which this is a phonetic spelling, namely " [I have] got you" Literally, from the sense of got = "caught, obtained", it means "I've caught you" As in, you were falling, and I caught you, or you were running, and I grabbed you It's a short step from the benign type of caught to the red-handed type of caught
Pronunciation Rules for Ch words - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The pronunciation of ch as k is generally found in words borrowed from Greek (where the ch stands for the Greek letter chi) See Wikipedia: English words of Greek origin: Ch is pronounced like k rather than as in "church": e g , character, chaos It's annoyingly hard to find a non-Wikipedia reference, but this borders on common knowledge Loanwords from a few other languages have ch
What can I call 2nd and 3rd place finishes in a competition? There are many awards I received from the sport I did I thought to compress everything and write as 'Inter university and All island winner' but I have placed only 2nd and 3rd places What is the
Whats the difference between bloke, chap and lad? @AndrewLeach I saw the word 'bloke' in the computer game, referring to the Nazies: 'those bloody blokes' I know, that the word 'lad' is quite often used by the Scots And just wanted to understand, in what contexts could these synonyms be used and to what extent they are interchangeable
I appreciate cha - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I, having lived most of my life in the American South, have heard this expression a lot (though I would tend to spell and pronounce it "'preciate 'cha" I e "Preeshee-a-chuh") Having also lived in other regions, though, I'm well aware that it's as peculiar to Southerners as "y'all " Idk the etymological details of the idiom, I think it's very typical of southern warmth and friendliness It
What’s a non-vulgar alternative for “covering one’s Oxford Dictionaries Online writes in their U S section that the phase cover one’s ass is an informal phrase meaning: Foresee and avoid the possibility of attack or criticism ‘I like to
In sober fact meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What does quot;in sober fact quot; mean I know that quot;in fact quot;, is used to emphasize the truth of something, especially when it may seem contrary However, adding sober must somehow cha