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#141196 03/24/05 04:12 PM
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Jackie, you're misreading the M-W entry. Only definition 3 is preceded by /si-'känd/ Oh thank heavens!
P.S.--I'm glad one of us knows what I'm doing!



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Well, I love this place ~ all these years we've been yammering away and we can still turn up pockets of the language that surprise us in our assumptions! :]

I would never have guessed that this was peculiar to the UK side of the pond ~ how about Tasmansylvania and other territories?


#141198 03/25/05 12:42 AM
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Peculiar's the word, all right...


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Funny, in French we say secondement to mean secondly.


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> the word

keep studying gal, and you too can learn to speak English!


#141201 03/26/05 04:42 PM
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Actually, this word HAS made it to this side of the pond - I once worked for Transport Canada as a temp and was seconded to another office than the one that originally employed me. Only in Canada, you say? Pity.


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I've heard USns say "secondment" meaning a temporary transfer. Guess it depends on who you talk to ...


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The military use of the term secondment was lost to the use of the abbreviations TAD (meaning Temporary Additional Duty) and TDY (meaning Temporary Duty).



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Dunno about the Kiwis, but here is Oz seCOND is used as per British.

BTW the normal variation on Tasmania is Taswegia - no idea why and I must say Tasmansylvania conjures up an apposite image of forests


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the normal variation on Tasmania is Taswegia Wha-at?! Why on earth...??? This reminds me of Glaswegians, but man is not gow and the city is not Glasgowia, and I don't know why it changes to Glaswegians anyway.


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