"Rate": Britspeak only?

[Wilson Gray]

Damn, Charlie! I've been caught behind the curve, again!

-Wilson

On 5/4/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> Ha!  No sooner had I gotten Wilson's posting about BE "to
> low-rate" than I was reading a term paper (for a folklore
> class) in which the student referred to jokes that "B-rate"
> minority groups.  Unlike the complimentary jokes that A-rate
> them . . . .
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> --Charlie
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> >Charlie, your example sentences work for me. And
> there's "to low-rate" in BE (and in other dialets?), with
> the meaning "to insult."
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> >-Wilson
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> >On 5/4/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> >> Although Americans use (or used to use) "rate" in a
> similar sense:  "The food at this place just doesn't
> rate."  "You got invited? You must really rate!"
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> Perhaps also in that "rate/reckon/value" category is "rank,"
> as in the sports-page usage: a "ranked" team, meaning
> a 'highly-ranked' team.
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> >> --Charlie
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