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Can I Lend?
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Twice this week alone I’ve heard this said, I want to say
“ No,you can borrow” the person you borrow of is the ‘lender’
“ No,you can borrow” the person you borrow of is the ‘lender’
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lend borrow
buy sell
let rent
there are compounds that just add to the confusion - "rent off/from"
landlords let on a lease
BUT reader - rent and let is the same word in French - loyer
and mu auld fave - buy and sell is the same word in Old Nubian ( you know the chaps with the big...) and as Armbruster memorably points out in Dongolawi Nubian = it has the sense of transfer property.
as people so often comment
I had to tell you that
buy sell
let rent
there are compounds that just add to the confusion - "rent off/from"
landlords let on a lease
BUT reader - rent and let is the same word in French - loyer
and mu auld fave - buy and sell is the same word in Old Nubian ( you know the chaps with the big...) and as Armbruster memorably points out in Dongolawi Nubian = it has the sense of transfer property.
as people so often comment
I had to tell you that
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