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Thread #126382 Message #2810829
Posted By: treewind
13-Jan-10 - 08:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: translations from the English
Subject: RE: BS: translations from the English
"bye-election' started as a joke
We (UK) also have bye-laws. In both cases the prefix means local in contrast to national, so I thinks it's perfectly serious.
c.f. Highways and byways - major and minor roads
And gnomad:
"pulic schoolboy"
Assuming you meant public schoolboy, that requires further translation as in Britain a "public school" is what most people elsewhere would logically call a private school. (there is a historic explanation that makes sense, honest)