>>>>>A pound money (sterling) £ can be a "nicker", a "quid" (the last 2 only ever used in the singular, eg "twenty nicker/quid") or a "sov" (short for sovereign).
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>>>>You make my point. But how about the idea that such informal or dialectic words should not be used in international forums?
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>>>It would never work. Impossible with English - there are too many things which don't have words whose first meanings would describe them, so they have to rely on second-third-fourth-nth plus context. You have already used a couple of words in their second (or further) meanings:
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>>>"you make my point" - Terry is not the manufacturer of your conical tip
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>>>"international" - now used predominantly to mean "foreign" (as in "we ship to international addresses", or "international languages"), while you used it in its obsolete meaning
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>>International obsolete? That's weird. I'd say it's far more correct to use international here than to use foreign. Foreign is used by an inlander, not by an outlander, to indicate all other countries or non-residents. The UT is not a foreign forum, I sincerely hope.
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>I agree. I think Dragan's flawed in that he gets to see Americanisms like that, whereas they're only used in the "English-speaking" world where people try to emulate their expreesions, such as:
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>"internalise", "I am good [well]", et al.
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>BTW, I don't know if this started as a US expression, or is "business-speak", but I nearly smashed my telly the other week when, during an episode of the British version of "The Apprentice", the woman who was team-leader for the week, calling her team together for a brainstorm said ... (gulp) ... (it's hard to bring myself round even to write it) ... here goes ... "Ok, Team - Ideation"

Unfortunately, it's a real dictionary word on this side of the pond. It probably shouldn't be, but it is.