'A conversant'? Australia's official dictionary, (the Macquarie), defines conversant purely as an adjective:
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Sub-titles Needed
On the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald today, this extract from a US government cable appears:
'A conversant'? Australia's official dictionary, (the Macquarie), defines conversant purely as an adjective:
We need a little note in square brackets, explaining this strange new Yankee usage and indicating that, at the paper, they're aware it's not the norm.
'A conversant'? Australia's official dictionary, (the Macquarie), defines conversant purely as an adjective:
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