I recently ran across the term block ornament, completely opaque unless you
know the meaning; OED (entry revised 2022): slang (British and Australian)
Obso...
September 13, 2005
Sri Lankan English
The September 2005 issue of the OED Newsletter contains an article by Richard Boyle, one of the OED's consultants, which looks at the history of Sri Lankan English. A useful overview of the subject from the author of Knox's Words, a study of words of Sri Lankan origin recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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