A few questions to help a newbie

[Patrick Chadwick]

And we ... cannot engage in "secondment" (cross pollination across organizations) because the brilliant Webster decided to leave the word out of the American dictionary.

Well, it's certainly in my unabridged Webster's International. You may be using a cheapo version

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[Seaspriter]

Well, it's certainly in my unabridged Webster's International. You may be using a cheapo version

Glad Webster started to help you folks Internationally, because he's left us Yanks with gaps on our speech, thus in our thinking. That's why, when you type "secondment" into this post ( or in Word docs) it comes up with a red underlining. If you think this is bad, the Romans did worse things to the Greeks, stripping entire concepts out of the Latin language. That's why there is no word for the Greek "philotimo" which means "love of honour," a term indicating the highest form of commitment anyone can have for "the love of their country and the integrity they hold for doing the right thing." Alas, but I digress ..........