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Dec 24, 2018 Letters
Dear Editor,
Guyana now has the distinction of offering a new word for inclusion in Oxford, Webster Thesaurus and other dictionaries as well as for appropriate use on the internet.
-CHARRANDASS- verb:
-to betray a business associate, friend family or one’s trust in the most vile vicious and inhumane manner possible;
-to stab a loved one in the back for the sake of a mess of filthy lucre usually payable overseas.
-to cowardly hide behind aiders and abettors of dastardly acts and sneak out with one’s tail between one’s legs.
CHARRANDASS -noun:
-a Judas who makes Judas Iscariot seem like an arch angel
-a rat in a dark hole
Example of usage: I ent tying bundle with you buddy. You is a Charrandass and you might just sell me out!
How to spot them: You can’t. They
just crawl out of the woodwork when you least expect.
How to avoid them: Just pray, and hope you are not in the wrong place at the wrong time.
To all those honest upright and noble Charrandasses out there, if anyone glances at you with any hint of suspicion, just smile and say “it wasn’t me!”
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