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>there's one exception: use of the word 'tabled'. Another exception: "moot", as in "moot point". In the UK it means "subject to debate", while in the US it mea
by mrob 3mo ago
>there's one exception: use of the word 'tabled'.
Another exception: "moot", as in "moot point". In the UK it means "subject to debate", while in the US it means "inconsequential and therefore not subject to debate".
- lbriner 3mo agoI'm British but I always understood it as the second meaning. e.g. "We were going to consider XYZ but now it's a moot point because the project is cancelled."
- mrob 3mo agoI've heard it used that way in the UK too, but the first meaning is traditional. Wiktionary has some examples: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot I expect the US meaning will eventually become standard everywhere.
- dofm 3mo agoIt sort of means both simultaneously, doesn't it (we could discuss it but it's inconsequential), but we do tend to use it in that formulation most.