What does "Chap" when it describes a person? [closed]
Feb 6, 2020 · However, 'chap' here is informal, just a less highbrow/remote replacement for 'person', and (from the context, which hints at say a Bertie-Wooster-like association) having a …
What's the difference between "bloke", "chap" and "lad"?
Dec 7, 2012 · chap — " (British) fellow. Origin of chap: chapman" lad — "a male person of any age between early boyhood and maturity" So, it seems, that lad can be related only to a young …
Is there a standard symbol for denoting a chapter in a citation?
Sep 4, 2023 · No. The standard abbreviations are Ch. and Chap. …or at least, if there is such a symbol, Unicode doesn’t know about it yet — and Unicode is pretty comprehensive, including …
single word requests - Feminine Forms for chaps and blokes
Mar 26, 2023 · (Source: Can a woman be a chap?, Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman, Grammarphobia, 15 May 2019) Increasingly there is criticism of using potentially gendered …
British usage of “cha”, “char” or “chai” to mean “tea”
By happenstance, I stumbled upon the words cha, char and chai in the dictionary today, all defined as meaning tea in informal British English. I lived and worked in London for some time, …
vocabulary - Poor chap vs. poor woman - English Language
Sep 23, 2015 · Poor chap vs. poor woman [closed] Ask Question Asked 10 years, 2 months ago Modified 10 years, 2 months ago
Is it offensive to refer to someone as a bird? [closed]
Calling a lady a bird was commonplace in the late 1900s. Now it's less so, but the British have a habit of reviving these types of words to use playfully, so people will say stuff like "no problem …
Is it pejorative to use "old girl" to refer to a woman?
Nov 10, 2014 · There are essentially two distinct and different uses. Former pupils of schools are sometimes known as 'Old Boys' and 'Old Girls'. David Cameron, the present Prime Minister is …
What exactly does "tally ho" mean? - English Language & Usage …
@MichaelOwenSartin: To add to the wikipedia article "tally-ho" comes French taïaut or tayaut evolved from Middle French ta-ho formed from two onomatopœic words: ta that was the cry to …
Comma usage after the words well done [closed]
Do I need to put a comma after done in the sentence Well done indeed!