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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"S/he is called on for lots of stuff and they're lucky too.
How did 'so and so' end up as the term for an unnamed person?
Good question. I have no answer."
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"Short for someone or somebody?
Why have an 'and' in there then?"
Dunno, maybe it's just evolved into that over the years like most language has. Dave Gorman did a good piece on so called Catphrases on one of his shows as well. Can't post the link, but it was aired on 22 Sept 2015  |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
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"No idea. Have you tried googling it?
Where's the fun in that?"
I tried googling. And the fun in that was that it didn't solve the query at all (normally my Google Fu is on point so I now have further respect for the difficulty of the question) and has led me via various sidequests to an additional pondering. In science and scent and other sc words, is it the s or the c that is silent? I would hazard a guess that it is the c (hence psychology where the s is sounded and the hard rather than soft c forms the beginning of the second syllable) but I could be wrong. And I like a good ponder. |
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"No idea. Have you tried googling it?
Where's the fun in that?
I tried googling. And the fun in that was that it didn't solve the query at all (normally my Google Fu is on point so I now have further respect for the difficulty of the question) and has led me via various sidequests to an additional pondering. In science and scent and other sc words, is it the s or the c that is silent? I would hazard a guess that it is the c (hence psychology where the s is sounded and the hard rather than soft c forms the beginning of the second syllable) but I could be wrong. And I like a good ponder."
Is that why the French invented the cedilla ç |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
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"Is that why the French invented the cedilla ç :-"
I think that just denotes a soft rather than hard c. Science is the same in both French and English (although it is feminine in French). Ça va bien! |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"No idea. Have you tried googling it?
Where's the fun in that?
I tried googling. And the fun in that was that it didn't solve the query at all (normally my Google Fu is on point so I now have further respect for the difficulty of the question) and has led me via various sidequests to an additional pondering. In science and scent and other sc words, is it the s or the c that is silent? I would hazard a guess that it is the c (hence psychology where the s is sounded and the hard rather than soft c forms the beginning of the second syllable) but I could be wrong. And I like a good ponder."
Thank you for the Googling and I'm now pondering what you read that led you to ponder sc words.
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"It orinates from the Yiddish language aparently
Do you know which Yiddish word?
Is schmuck a Yiddish word?
Do you fancy a schmuck?"
Oooh you're a right so and so you are 
Hang on a minute, we've come full circle |
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