RE: They must be tough over there

[Carrie Baker <carriebak -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I am a native speaker of British English, and that is what I would say
(maybe I would say rag as well)
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Subject: RE: They must be tough over there
From: "Jayaseelan Pannirselvam" <jayaseelan -dot- pannirselvam -at- ite -dot- com -dot- au>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:00:01 +1000
X-Message-Number: 25

 Listed under "Anomalous Usage" is
this: The word "cloth" usually refers only to any clothes or fabrics
that are not wearable, like "waste cloth": "Use that cloth for
cleaning."



Would any of you native English speakers pass out, overcome with the
hilarity of this quaint expression, if I were to ask you to "hand me
that *cloth* there"? Or would you say that you are cut off a different
cloth (not sure if that expression is legit either), and hence say such
things differently?  =20

Jayaseelan
(who, based in Chennai with Tamil as his mother tongue, is not so good
at clothing his thoughts with the appropriate English words or phrases)
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