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By *icketysplits OP   Woman  over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Common English words that come from elsewhere.

Let's have an easy one to start off: pyjamas.

Say where it is from then post another one.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Crikey, Id better take a look at the end of this thread or I might slip some Welsh ones in

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman  over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Crikey, Id better take a look at the end of this thread or I might slip some Welsh ones in "

Are there any Welsh words we now use in English regularly? I think there is one at least.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Spondulicks / spondulix / spondoolies….. i.e. money

The most likely origin is from the Greek ‘spondulox’ which is a type of shell. The Spondylus shell was used as neolithic jewellery and also an early form of money

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman  over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Spondulicks / spondulix / spondoolies….. i.e. money

The most likely origin is from the Greek ‘spondulox’ which is a type of shell. The Spondylus shell was used as neolithic jewellery and also an early form of money

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That's a good one. I can see this game isn't going to work the way I thought it would.

Word and etymology then. Throw in some phrases too.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Bumbalum

Old English/Latin word from which we get the word bum

The word bottom only comes from 18th century

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman  over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Bumbalum

Old English/Latin word from which we get the word bum

The word bottom only comes from 18th century"

I didn't know that. So where did bottom come from in the 18th century?

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Farmerlandish - "I'm not a pheasant plucker, i'm a pheasant plucker's son. And i'll sit and pluck the pheasants til the pheasant plucker comes"

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