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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
NOTE: Seriously, Harry, I wasn't aware of the cultural use of the word in British English society.
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Here's an example from "Whose Body" (the first "Lord Peter Wimsey" novel):
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He screwed his monocle into his eye, adding: ‘I see you’re troubled here with the soot blowing in. Beastly nuisance, ain’t it? I get it, too – spoils all my books, you know. Here, don’t you trouble, if you don’t care about lookin’ at it.’
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