From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, September 1, 2014 3:09:50 PM UTC-4, J.Pascal wrote:   
   > On Monday, September 1, 2014 6:02:05 AM UTC-6, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
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   > > The copy edit picked up mainly punctuation, but also Americanised my   
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   > > British English, so I acquired a few gottens and a lot of -ize endings   
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   > > as well as discovering that there is no word in the USA equivalent to   
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   > > the British 'boffin'. (We ended up with 'scientist' but that really   
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   > > doesn't cover it.)   
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   > *Sigh*  That's because in the US we say "boffin".   
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   You mean in the sense that shag is used in UK?   
      
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