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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.11.10 (01) [D/E]

> From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
> Subject: LL-L "Etymology"
>
> Beste Lowlanders,
>
> According to Daniel Cassidy, much of (American) English slang was
> actually derived from Irish.
> The guy won the American Book Award for nonfiction this year with a
book
> in which he explains how common words like "dork", "slum", "buddy",
> "geezer", "dude", "dig" and many others can all be traced back to
Irish
> Gaelic.
>
> More here:
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/nyregion/08irish.html?em&ex=1194843600&en=1c7fcd79481b7928&ei=5087%
>0A

Amateur etymology at its worst.

"Buddy" is from the Irish "bodach" meaning "lusty youth"? Why not from
West Country English "butty", meaning "friend"? Note the semantic
equivalence.

"Glom" is a Scots word cognate with English "glum" and so on. Again,
these are semantically related, "glum" being the sort of face a person
makes when an uncomfortable truth suddenly dawns on them (see Scottish
National Dictionary for more).

This isn't to say that he's wrong about everything, but if you set out
to prove that everything comes from some favoured language, you'll find
plenty of coincidental "evidence". Look at the "some American Indian
tribes speak Welsh" fiasco.

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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