>>>>BTW, do you lot use the expression "pratt", meaning an "pathetic idiot"? Many people here with the surname Pratt (like the dr in ER) would have it chaged by deed poll.
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>>>By the same token, if a Texan says to you "Git!" he is asking you to move along, not assessing your character <s>
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>>I've seen enough westerns to know that :-)
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>And in meeting the parents of both Texan and English girls I was dating I was exposed to the alternative meanings ... <s>

Traditionally, from an old TV sit com (Till Death us do part), there was a Liverpool (Scouse) character, played by Tony Booth (Cherie Blair's dad), who the cockney star, Alf Garnett, used to call "you Scaaaaas git". I've had that all my life :-)

That series was exported to the USA and repackaged as "All in the Family" with Archie Bunker for Alf Garnett.