From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu   
      
   In article ,   
   J.Pascal  wrote:   
   >On Monday, September 1, 2014 6:02:05 AM UTC-6, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   >(...)   
   >> 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".   
      
   This US reader knows what "boffin" means but definitely thinks of   
   it as a Britishism.   
      
   Someone elsethread suggested "egghead", which seems to me not exactly   
   identical but a reasonable approximation.   
      
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