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By happenstance, I stumbled upon the words cha, char and chai in the dictionary today, all defined as meaning tea in informal British English. I lived and worked in London for some time, but never ...
Gotcha actually has several meanings. All of them can be derived from the phrase of which this is a phonetic spelling, namely " [I have] got you". Literally, from the sense of got = "caught, obtained", it means "I've caught you". As in, you were falling, and I caught you, or you were running, and I grabbed you. It's a short step from the benign type of caught to the red-handed type of caught ...
The pronunciation of ch as /k/ is generally found in words borrowed from Greek (where the ch stands for the Greek letter chi). See Wikipedia: English words of Greek origin: Ch is pronounced like k rather than as in "church": e.g., character, chaos. It's annoyingly hard to find a non-Wikipedia reference, but this borders on common knowledge. Loanwords from a few other languages have ch ...
@AndrewLeach I saw the word 'bloke' in the computer game, referring to the Nazies: 'those bloody blokes'. I know, that the word 'lad' is quite often used by the Scots. And just wanted to understand, in what contexts could these synonyms be used and to what extent they are interchangeable.