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What do you call a rota? Seems a word in common use in the UK
by reallydontask 5y ago
What 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'.