In the news - Tossers and prats need public help

[Alison Murie]

>* Ananova: *    *http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2141954.html?menu=
>Tossers and prats need public help* Jan. 3, 2007
>
>The public are being challenged to find the origins of 40 well-known words
>such as prat, wally and tosser.
>
>Editors of the Oxford English Dictionary also need to source words like
>hoodie, dogging, pole dance, spiv and loo.
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Loo?  It doesn't devolve from "watercloset" by way of "Waterloo"?
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