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[JBee]

www.genealogyintime.com

http://www.genealogyintime.com/artic...15-page02.html

[kiterunner]

I take it that their acronym "git" doesn't mean the same in the US as it does over here!

[JBee]

They've probably never heard of the term or its connatations.

[Kit]

Given they aren't abbreviating it someone may know what a git is.

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Kit

Given they aren't abbreviating it someone may know what a git is.

It says "Git Magazine" on their webpage!!

[Janet]

Not a clue!!!

I asked OH had he ever heard it, he said: Nope, not unless you mean like "Git over here!"

I actually had to go look it up. Hope this covers it, or am I still missing something?
wordnik

[Merry]

Janet - re the link you posted - I feel they are wrong to say git is a variant of get in British slang. That's just a pronunciation issue with certain regional accents, so you would still write "get over here" not "git over here".

However, this "A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, or childish person." is definitely right. Definitely not a word for polite society!! Most people who use the word would prefix it with the word stupid - "you stupid git".

It says "Git Magazine" on their webpage!!

That's just the sort of thing that makes me laugh!!

[Olde Crone]

Isn't "git" a contraction of illeGITimate? Not a polite word in the UK.

OC

[Kit]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

It says "Git Magazine" on their webpage!!

oops I missed that.

[Mary from Italy]

The same thing happened in Italy years ago; there was a big tourism exhibition at the Exhibition Centre in Milan which was called Giornate Internazionali del Turismo, and there were huge GIT posters and banners up all over Milan. I told the PR people, and if I remember rightly the name was changed the next year. It's now the Borsa Internazionale del Turismo (BIT).

That boob was easily beaten a few years ago by Italian power company Powergen. Someone had the brilliant idea of calling their website powergenitalia.com.