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The fault is mine, though I did tag my initial reply as OT - BookCat mentioned a review she tried to leave on Amazon, I jumped on my pet peeve pony, and we took a detour longer and more meandering than the Amazon. Mea culpa
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"Char" in Aussie slang, eg, "Cuppa char, love," but becoming obsolete. Pronounced more like cha. No aspirated h on end, but no pronounced r either. Haven't heard it used for (wait for it) yonks.
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"Yonks" now that's a word which takes me back. Seems to be used as infrequently as "char" is now in the UK. I wonder what the origin was?
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