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Incidentally, with regard to The Big Lebowski, doesn't the cowboy character who narrates the film actually say that the epithet "dude" is an insult where he comes from?Yes, the cowboy says that and this is one of the big jokes in the film, I guess, because after that the word 'dude' has been...

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I am not quite close to 'homeless'. I am living at my aunt's home because my granny invited 3 of her siplings to stay... aiya, according to my parents this is going to last 2 weeks or more. I am currently using my uncle's PC just to get here and take a look at what you say. Though I cannot come...

The '-man' forms now have an air of emphasising both nationality and gender. They are more common than the '-woman' forms; but in current (BrE) speech, they seem to occur mostly in humour, oratorical utterances, or slightly old-fashioned generalisations: 1. There's an Englishman, an Irishman,...