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- Isn't 'sorry' also used to express sympathy? As in, "I'm sorry that your cat died." It might be ambiguous to 'sorrow,' but maybe it should be mentioned.
Thesublime514 01:53, 14 January 2007 (UTC)Reply
- Isn't sorry also used as "no"? Like "Do you have any more butter?" "Sorry, we're all out." Or is that just a shorter form of "nope, sorry", which doesn't really count?
24.136.77.239 07:52, 29 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Sorry is used verbatim in a number of languages as a slang or colloquial equivalent of the native word, in non-Roman based languages they are transliterated - ソリー (ja), сорри/сори (ru). The other popular words are thank you (Hindi, Chinese, Japanese), bye/bye-bye (many languages), hello (Sinhalese) and sometimes please. I wonder if these English derivations need to be added as translations or they are still considered "English words spoken by speakers of other languages". --Anatoli 02:40, 16 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
- The word is still part of the language, borrowed or not. Also, there might be differences in how the word is used. For example; in Swedish "Sorry" is only used as an excuse, and never as a sign of regret or sorrow. Christoffre (talk) 15:32, 12 February 2021 (UTC). Edited 15 February 2021.Reply
Why is there an entry for 'sorry' in Spanish? It is not used in common speech, at least not more than any other given English word, and it is also not in the RAE dictionary. --Metroxed (talk) 20:29, 4 February 2021 (UTC)Reply