Exactly the opposite of what it means in the USA. From the context, I kind of
thought that’s what it means in the UK (those are very conservative ideas and
he is a conservative so why would he want to set aside or postpone them?).
Carleton
From: Martin Vlietstra [mailto:vliets...@btinter
In the House of Commons, “tabled” means “put on the table for discussion”, or
in everyday language, “proposed”.
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Carleton MacDonald
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Paul-- Of all the metric units, the Celsius scale is the most natural.
It is too bad that the U.S. Weather Service just missed the conversion
during the Reagan confusion. I have been thinking Celsius for many ears
now and have all my digital instruments set to that scale. When the
television
Carleton-- That is an interesting question. "To table" is one of those
words known technically as contranyms, that is, a single word that can
have two opposite meanings. Another example would be "to sanction," which
means both "to recognize" and "to penalize."
"To table" may mean to put out
This weekend, West Texas endured its hardest freeze in many years. VERY seldom
does our thermometer register negative numbers, but the last couple of nights I
have observed minus one readings. Big deal, huh? I lived in northern Maine,
where the daily high temperature would be a negative number
“Tabled”, in the US, means “to set aside”, “to stop considering”, “to postpone”.
Is that what it means in the UK?
Carleton
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