>rota
I apologize for offtop, but are you British? I have only seen this word in the British literature and now I'm wondering if Americans or Canadians or Australians ever use it.
I apologize for offtop, but are you British? I have only seen this word in the British literature and now I'm wondering if Americans or Canadians or Australians ever use it.
Seems a word in common use in the UK
Rota is indeed very British. It clearly comes from the Latin word for "wheel", but in Italy it is not used (nor in France, afaik) - we have the Sacra Rota (which is the Catholic ecclesiastical tribunal, typically invoked for marriage dissolutions) and the word rotazione which is "rotation" and can indeed be used to indicate shift planning. Now I wonder if "rota" in that context comes as a shortening of rotation...