...even dough...
...even dough...
(OP)
I have a co-worker that is from Nigeria. I have noticed that he uses the phrase "even dough" a lot. I had suspected this was only due to his heavy accent, and that he meant to say "even though". I received an email where he used the term "even dough" so I asked him about it.
He thought "even dough" was a real term, derived from baking, that meant "things will be ok if X is done".
He thought "even dough" was a real term, derived from baking, that meant "things will be ok if X is done".
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Did you ever deal with the law firm;
Dewy, Cheetum and Howe?
Very real last names but placed together results in another meaning.
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d-d-d-dat's all folks!!
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His salutation when sharing a round of drinks has always been "Formaggio!". We non-Italians had always assumed this was the Italian version of "Cheers!", Skoll!", "Salut!", etc, and thought nothing of it. A year or so ago, an Italian cousin of his visited Australia on holiday, and joined us at the bar. His cousin was puzzled as to the origin of his toast. My friend explained to his cousin that in Australia, it is customary to say "Cheese!" before downing one's drink.
For more than 20 years, he had never realised that we were actually saying "Cheers!", and none of us had ever realised he had been using a mis-translation all this time. Needless to say, the group of us have all adopted "Formaggio!" as our preferred toast (much to the embarrassment of my Italian friend) , and we are just waiting for the day when it really catches on, and we hear it from someone outside our little group.
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n.
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Slang. Money.
Sounds like he's offering up a bet with even odds. I can almost hear this coming from a mob bookie in an old movie.
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Perhaps these types of words and phrases might best be described as "micro-colloquialisms"?
Ray Reynolds
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These "mondegreens" can be fun. For more go to
www.corsinet.com/braincandy/wrlyric.html
More beatles and others
Enjoy
pennpoint
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'Donuts make your brown eyes blue'
And perhaps a not so incorrect use of another word...
In high school, I volunteered to help with a group of mentally disabled students in the high school dark room. One of the kids severely overexposed a piece of photographic paper such that the minute it hit the developer, it turned jet black. Very calmy, he moved the jet black print to the stop bath, and then as he put it in the last tray he confided to me that there was nothing to worry about. 'There', he said, 'that will fix it'.