Having spent some time in the presence of a few of our American cousins over the last couple of months either at presentations or in phone conversations I record here a few vocabularistic (!)distractions for your enjoyment. They are not necessarily wrong, just were unusual to hear in day-to-day conversation or jarring in context.
Yeoman people - the day to day workers
Munge - no idea what this was but doesn't sound nice
I-cap - intellectual capital
colourisation - I couldn't find it in the dictionary, I am guessing "colouring"
attrited - as in making a verb of attrition
inculcating - I had to look this up - "to impress by repeated statement or admonition" - Aussies, thing of the recent "working families" Ruddism.
Saturday, December 01, 2007
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