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Archaic spelling of "jail". Read it with a soft g and a long a and it makes a little more sense. There's also the derivative "gaoler". (American here, but that's one I've come across before.)
My goodness, I never would have guessed. Thank you for sharing. Also, if gaol can have a soft g, then so can gif? :-)
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A better example for why regionality matters: what does "pants" refer to?
Rubbish / nonsense / drivel / twaddle / claptrap etc. Virtually unknown outside the UK.
As a Brit, I feel the cultural traffic is more from the US to the UK. But that is hardly surprising given the larger American population and outsize influence of Hollywood. Ps/ Americans, please keep saying "bummed". It is a constant source of amusement for immature Brits like myself.
I'd rather Americans start using fags instead of cigarettes, aluminum instead of aluminum and kilometers per hour instead of bald eagles per freedom.
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Archaic spelling of "jail". Read it with a soft g and a long a and it makes a little more sense. There's also the derivative "gaoler". (American here, but that's one I've come across before.)
My goodness, I never would have guessed. Thank you for sharing. Also, if gaol can have a soft g, then so can gif? :-)
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Surely for the BBC Minor COLOUR was always the correct way. It was a bad show that they allowed COLOR as well. As each keyword was saved as a code - did COLOR and COLOUR really map to two different codes?
According to https://www.ncus.org.uk/dsbbcoms.htm , they both map to &FB