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>rota I apologize for offtop, but are you British? I have only seen this word in the British literature and now I'm wondering if Americans or Canadians or Aust
by 5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
>rota
I apologize for offtop, but are you British? I have only seen this word in the British literature and now I'm wondering if Americans or Canadians or Australians ever use it.
- Kye 5y agoUS here and I've never heard the word. I thought it might be an acronym until I read your comment.
- reallydontask 5y agoWhat do you call a rota? Seems a word in common use in the UK
- eropple 5y ago"Rotation", in the US. I've never heard "rota" as shorthand before. That's interesting!
- toyg 5y agoI guess they use something like "duty" or "shift plan". Rota is indeed very British. It clearly comes from the Latin word for "wheel", but in Italy it is not used (nor in France, afaik) - we have the Sacra Rota (which is the Catholic ecclesiastical tribunal, typically invoked for marriage dissolutions) and the word rotazione which is "rotation" and can indeed be used to indicate shift planning. Now I wonder if "rota" in that context comes as a shortening of rotation...
- kiwijamo 5y agoHere in New Zealand we usually use 'roster'.
- Macha 5y agoNope, Irish