Cal vs Er - What's the difference?
cal | er |
(mining, archaic, UK, dialect, Cornwall) wolfram, an ore of tungsten
(informal) To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found almost exclusively in the phrase um and er .
As a noun cal
is kale; cabbage.cal
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Noun
(-)- (Simmonds)
er
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Verb
- He ummed and erred his way through the presentation.