Halls of ivy

Barnhart ADS-L at HIGHLANDS.COM
Mon Mar 13 10:28:51 UTC 2000


Perhaps, one of the most absurd examples of this sort of "etymology" is
that for _posh_.  That one is memorialized in a song in the movie
entitled Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.  This one has been so often proffered
that it has too be given space for debunking in etymological
dictionaries (cf. The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology).

David K. Barnhart, Editor
The Barnhart Dictionary Companion [quarterly]
barnhart at highlands.com
www.highlands.com/Lexik

"Necessity obliges us to neologize."
Thomas Jefferson-August 16, 1813



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