your most sought word or phrase origins?

[Stephen Goranson]

Invitation:

list a few words or phrases or quotations for which (in your view) the
etymology
or origin is so far unknown or unsettled--the ones the origins of which you
would most like to know.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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