Dot Wordsworth

Mind Your Language | 8 March 2003

A Lexicographer writes

issue 08 March 2003

Dr C.M.W. Tang writes from Georgetown, Guyana, to say that an English lady professor of his acquaintance was perplexed when she was admitted to a hospital there and had to tick her race as ‘Caucasian’. She wondered what connection she was supposed to have with a mountain range.

She might well.

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