From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2014-09-01 19:09:50 +0000, J.Pascal said:   
      
   > On Monday, September 1, 2014 6:02:05 AM UTC-6, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   > (...)   
   >> The copy edit picked up mainly punctuation, but also Americanised my   
   >>   
   >> British English, so I acquired a few gottens and a lot of -ize endings   
   >>   
   >> as well as discovering that there is no word in the USA equivalent to   
   >>   
   >> the British 'boffin'. (We ended up with 'scientist' but that really   
   >>   
   >> doesn't cover it.)   
   >   
   > *Sigh*  That's because in the US we say "boffin".   
      
   Or sometimes, out of sheer perversity, "wallah".   
      
   A few generations back, I suppose "eggheads" or even "lab boys" could   
   have been used.   
      
   --   
   John W Kennedy   
   "The grand art mastered the thudding hammer of Thor   
   And the heart of our lord Taliessin determined the war."   
     -- Charles Williams.  "Mount Badon"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)