working

[Simon]

"Ben, who works in SI units, and is working, honest, just not that quickly."
Working as hard as I am then!

Neil: "Actually, my dictionary isn't *that* big (it's smaller than Goblet of
Fire...oh, wait a minute, it's absolutely HUGE then), but it is a really
good encyclopedic dictionary, which tends to explain the etymology of words
in more detail.  I like reading it just for fun... such a sad life I lead.
<g>"

I have a tiny dictionary here, but luckily have access to the full OED
online. It is amazing how useful that has proved to be! My spell checker is
trying to correct encyclopedic to encyclopaedic again!


Neil: "Butchers I knew about, but it's amazing how many odd sounding slang
words turn our to be derived from Cockney rhyming slang."

I like CRS, but find that if I use it I get too many blank looks as few
people around here understand it.


Neil: "Benjamin, are you, perchance, another of Simon's Oxford 'china
plates'?"

Yes. Though one that is finable in a different country!


Simon
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"The greatest miricale is not that man stood on the moon; it is that God
came and stood in the Earth."
- Col. James Irwin