single word requests - What is the American equivalent of a …
Sep 15, 2018 · And here the words backie or backy is listed as an "untranslatable", the blogger found no American equivalent. The BBC have been known to use it, too: Boris Johnson 'naughty' for giving wife backie on his bike. Of course, it could also be a "lift", but that sounds British to me and, more importantly, can be used with a car rather than a bike.
etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Sep 16, 2018 · In an answer to the recent question, What is the American equivalent of a "backie"? site participant Chappo notes that in Australia the word dink is sometimes used as a noun to mean "a lift on a bicycle" and the verb dink can mean "carry a person on a bicycle" (both definitions provided by Oxford Living Dictionaries online). OLD has this very ...
What is a person who rides on camel-back called?
Jul 16, 2016 · This is going to be disappointing but equestrian comes to us from the Latin nominative singular eques (horseback rider), and the genus name for horses is equus; similarly the genus name for camels is camelus, so analogously the "knights who ride camels" (camelback riders) would (ostensibly) be cameles, and thus imported into English as camelestrian.
etymology - What is the origin of the colloquial term "bum" …
Aug 24, 2010 · The New Oxford American Dictionary reports that bum is synonym of vagrant ("a person without a settled home, or regular work, who wanders from place to place and lives by begging"), and that to bum means, "to travel, with no particular purpose or destination."
Using contracted forms ("don't", "let's") in a formal text
Jan 19, 2012 · Contractions generally sound a little more informal than their non-contracted equivalents. However, they also sound more natural, as non-contracted forms are practically never used in speech (except e.g. for emphasis or in …
'café' pronunciation - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Apr 22, 2016 · The standard American pronunciation stresses the final syllable /kæˈfeɪ/, whereas many speakers of “Insular English” (that is, English from the British Isles) move the stress to the first syllable as is their wont in borrowings from Romance that are not normally stressed initially.
British term for 'washroom'? [duplicate] - English Language
Possible Duplicate: “Washroom”, “restroom”, “bathroom”, “lavatory”, “toilet” or “toilet room” What is the British equivalent of the American ...
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