rutmus

[Ed Keer]

It's Swedish, and the spelling is "rotmos".

http://lexikon.nada.kth.se/cgi-bin/swe-eng

But who knows where the Balderdash people got it.
Probably from a midwest cookbook.

Ed

--- "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET> wrote:

> >   The real rhetorical question is, where'd the
> "Balderdash" people get it
> > from?
>
> Cookbook?
>
> The spelling "rotmos" gets a lot more hits.
>
> -- Doug Wilson
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