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Originally Posted by sextile
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- As above - ' excrutiating.' may be how you spell that particular word; but neither my copy of Hamlyn Encyclopedic World Dictionary - ISBN.: 0-600-00007-0. - nor I do. --  |
Any similarity between English and American is purely co-incidental .....they make it up as they go along... (and have a strong aversion to including "u" in many of their words..)
We Aussies may be colonials - but we speak fair dinkum English mate !
(.. and on that subject , it's funny that when most Aussies use the term "fair dinkum mate" they don't realise they're speaking Cantonese. It goes back to the Aussie gold rush in the 19th centrury when Chinese workers flooded the Victorian gold fields. Some unscrupulous gwailoo buyers tried to cheat them by saying they'd only found fools gold, and the chinese diggers replied - no, this "ding -gum" meaning "real gold" or, now used to mean , the real thing. )