we use Late Lalit after we grew up and realized it might be stereotyping
Muslims.of course now it just stereotypes another group.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Ashwin N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know anything about the origin of the term "late lateef"?
> This was a commonly used word in my circles during my school years.
> Later it became un-cool to use it. It means a person who is
> perennially late for anything.
>
> (For a few years in my youth I believed that this was a French word
> "late-la-thief" ;-)
>
> ~ash
> --
>
> Zsa Zsa Gabor  - "He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the
> house."
>
>


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