G'day Harshawardhan, On 29/04/2010, at 1:58 AM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar wrote: > No, no, this Buti (booty) refers to the family name of a very > illustrious ancient zemindar - landlord family from this area. large snip 8<....... << The next Buti - Raj connexion is in the form of the supremely otiose, supernumerary town planning authority called the Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) we have for our city. >> another large snip 8<.... Thank you Harshawardhan for that interesting bit. I had once more to reach for my trusty built-in Apple Dictionary, for I had long ago forgotten what 'otiose' means. Probably because it has served no practical purpose in my life, for a long time. For those without a built-in dictionary on their computer, here is the Apple version of 'otiose'. otiose |ˈō sh ēˌōs; ˈōtēˌōs| adjective serving no practical purpose or result : he did fuss, uttering otiose explanations. • archaic indolent; idle. DERIVATIVES otiosely adverb ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Latin otiosus, from otium ‘leisure.’ ooroo