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No, that's a US English meaning that isn't widely used in other English speaking countries.
by physicsguy 7y ago
No, that's a US English meaning that isn't widely used in other English speaking countries.
- consp 7y agoOr other non-English speaking parliamentary democracies for that matter.
- kragen 7y agoI don't think the meaning currently given to cognates in other languages is relevant to the question of what a word means in modern English. In Spanish, bizarro means "brave", and recordar means "to recall from memory"; this does not provide any evidence that "bizarre" means "brave" in English, or that "recording" means "recalling from memory" in English. (Although, as it turns out, it once did.)