Any suggestions, please?

[Christopher Chan]

Li Li wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 17:22 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> physicality
> 
> Bad example.   The Cambridge on-line dictionary doesn't say that it's
> either an Americanism or a neologism.  In fact they have a "UK"
> pronunciation with a really plummy (presumably Cambridge) accent.  I
> think it is standard modern English, in use by the Pommy Bastards as
> well.
> 
> My American-born, ancestors-came-on-the-Mayflower, husband assures me
> that "sorted" is a Britishism, never before heard on these shores.  I
> think I learned it in Oz.  Maybe it is now old-people speak.
> 
> 

I can vouch for 'sorted' being real English. It was used by an East 
Londoner so I am surprised Basil appeared to have difficulty 
understanding whether he was sorted. :-D


ps: Sometimes it carries the connotation of 'dealt with'.