Yet another Etymology That Won't Die (s. nob.)

Mark A Mandel mam at THEWORLD.COM
Sat Feb 23 19:09:18 UTC 2002


On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Laurence Horn wrote:

#  I kind of like the "snips and snobs" = 'tailors and cobblers' story
#myself, but I'll settle for "o.o.o.")

o yeah? ;-)\ What's "o.o.o."? I gather it means 'origin unknown', but
how?

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguist at Large



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