[lit-ideas] Re: A Small Query About Wankers

People off-list have proposed a number of explanations, one among which I find quite plausible. The first was that the waitress heard my accent and mis-used the only slang English term she knew. Unlikely. The second explanation, from someone who has contacts in the restaurant trade and who checked to see if there was such a brand of machine, is that the waitress was being slyly insulting. I don't think so. The third and plausible explanation came from someone who says he uses "wanker" as a synonym for "doomaflitchy, whatchamacallit, watzit or widget." 

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David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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