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Grammar and Linguistics > Vocabulary doubt - help please!!
Vocabulary doubt - help please!!
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Chilvis
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Vocabulary doubt - help please!!
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Hello everyone, I need your help. I know it �s usually called handrail or banister but can it also be a "baranda" as we call it in spanish? One of my students says a teacher once taught her this is called a baranda in English, and then a colleague told me she �s also heard it this way but I can �t find it in any dictionary. Is baranda then a possible word for this? And what about the one in balconies?
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17 Mar 2014
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Apodo
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This is a handrail or banister. I �ve never heard the word baranda.
A large balcony is called a veranda / verandah. Could this have caused the confusion?
Balcony rail, verandah rail are both used. |
18 Mar 2014
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cunliffe
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Never heard the word �baranda � but I like it! |
18 Mar 2014
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douglas
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I �ve never heard "baranda"--sounds like your student �s ex-teacher may have been wrong (or grew-up in a bilingual environment where the word was common for that group).
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18 Mar 2014
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MJ_Misa
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I have never heard baranda and I lived in England for three years. But it sounds nice. ;-)
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18 Mar 2014
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ChipW
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I lived in the US all my life before relocating to Colombia and I have never heard of the word Baranda as well.
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18 Mar 2014
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abitano
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"Baranda" being coined in 5, 4, 3, 2.... LOL |
18 Mar 2014
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abitano
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"Baranda" being coined in 5, 4, 3, 2.... LOL |
18 Mar 2014
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MoodyMoody
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I agree with Apodo; the word your friend probably heard was veranda, which is more like a porch outside. As an American from the South, this is what I think of when I hear veranda:
I would not use veranda to describe your picture. I would call it a staircase with a handrail or a banister.
As much as I love new words in English, I would be against adding "baranda" because it is too close to the words "veranda," and we have enough confusing groups of words already! |
18 Mar 2014
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yanogator
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The English word "veranda" is probably related to the Portuguese "varanda" and the Spanish "baranda", although it comes to us from Hindi, but we definitely don �t use "baranda" in English. Bruce |
18 Mar 2014
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MarionG
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Sometimes, when a kid writes an Anglicized word in his or her compositition, I let it slip because I think it is cute. Usually that just means they write the Hebrew word with "English" letters. I teach primary school and I really don �t think they need to know the word cilantro, I think it makes it so much more �theirs � when an 8 year old writes: I like cousbara.
Maybe your student got the same treatment with the word �baranda �?
oh dear, did I just admit to being a horrible teacher?? 
(Oh, I must add, I will usually point out that there is an English word for what they wrote, but that I think it is OK to leave it the way they wrote it.) |
18 Mar 2014
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