What is PAX ?

[Yap Yok Foo]

I have seen this word pax used by caterers to denote person/s
but a search in my dictionaries failed to find such a meaning.
Can some English natives please enlighten me?

[Colin Blackburn]

In article <m6764vsm3glsbp4r9...@4ax.com>,
yf...@pop.jaring.my says...

> I have seen this word pax used by caterers to denote person/s
> but a search in my dictionaries failed to find such a meaning.
> Can some English natives please enlighten me?

I have a feeling this might be USian rather than "native" English. It's
not in the OED that I can see. From seeing previous usage I think it is
a contraction of PACKS, meaning the number of packs in some shipment.
This has possibly come to mean people in that if you have, say, 100
people at a conference you will need 100 delegate packs, 100 pax.

Colin

[Peter T. Daniels]

It's airline computer for 'passenger'. (Fewer than 8 letters and all
that.)
--
Peter T. Daniels gram...@att.net

[Robert Briggs]

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> Yap Yok Foo wrote:
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> > I have seen this word pax used by caterers to denote person/s
> > but a search in my dictionaries failed to find such a meaning.
> > Can some English natives please enlighten me?
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> It's airline computer for 'passenger'.

Indeed.

Like "sheep", "pax" is singular or plural as required by its context.

Similarly, "tix" means "ticket(s)".

[Dr Ivan D. Reid]

On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 20:07, Robert Briggs <Robert...@BITphysics.orgBUCKET>
wrote in <3E441216...@BITphysics.orgBUCKET>:

> Indeed.

acronymfinder.com, via dictionary.com, also gives "personnel" for PAX.

--
Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Eng., Brunel Uni. Ivan...@brunel.ac.uk
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

[Robert Brydon.]

PAX -
Private Automatic Exchange ...(Telephone)
Latin for "Peace"
English Native - Bob.
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[chris]

Short for "passenger"?

"Robert Brydon." <bobb...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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[Tun]

"chris" <wal...@zoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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I seem to recall seeing this elsewhere fairly recently. Apparently PAX is
Travel Agent (etc) abbreviation for PASSENGERS. Similarly tix = TICKETS
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[Yap Yok Foo]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:23:10 -0000, "Tun" <sp...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>I seem to recall seeing this elsewhere fairly recently. Apparently PAX is
>Travel Agent (etc) abbreviation for PASSENGERS. Similarly tix = TICKETS
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Now if you want to take some pictures of the fascinating witches who
put the scintilating stiches in the britches of the boys who put the
powder on the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the
court of King Catactacus...

...you're too late! Because they've just... passed... by!

[chris...@arm.nospam.com]

I believe that's "Caractacus"

HTH
Chris

[Peter T. Daniels]

"When I can write a washing-bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you all the details of Caractacus's uniform, ..."

[Kell Gatherer]

In article <3E773F12...@arm.nospam.com>,

<chris...@arm.nospam.com> wrote:
> > Now if you want to take some pictures of the fascinating witches who
> > put the scintilating stiches in the britches of the boys who put the
> > powder on the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the
> > court of King Catactacus...
> >
> > ...you're too late! Because they've just... passed... by!

> I believe that's "Caractacus"

Not according to Rolf Harris.

--
Kell Gatherer
ke...@locsource.com
The Location Source

[Yap Yok Foo]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:45:22 +0000, chris...@arm.nospam.com wrote:

>I believe that's "Caractacus"

I copied the lyrics from an "official Rolf Harris" website but did not
look real hard at the spelling.

On the sleeve of my CD (incidentally autographed by the great man
himself when he visited KL in 1995) it says Caractacus.
I played the song again this morning and it sure sounded
Caractacus