cissies / sissies

"weak, effeminate men", from sis(ter). Singular 'cissy'

Why the spelling with c- (sometimes) in British English?

e.g. in

- He said his name was Ashe with an ā€˜E’ he added quickly, and Leamas knew he
was lying. He pretended not to be quite sure that Leamas really was Leamas,
so over lunch they opened the parcel and looked at the National Insurance
card like, thought Leamas, a couple of cissies looking at a dirty postcard.
(John le Carre - The spy who came in from the cold)


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Callback before_footer in mod_labnbook component should be migrated to new hook callback for core\hook\output\before_footer_html_generation
  • line 7228 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to debugging()
  • line 7292 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to {closure}()
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  • line 987 of /lib/classes/output/core_renderer.php: call to core\hook\output\before_footer_html_generation->process_legacy_callbacks()
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