Kettling

[Michael Quinion]

Your help in tracking down the German antecedents of "Polizeikessel" means
that I can now write a piece in World Wide Words about "kettling" with
some reasonable suggestions about its origin. The piece will appear this
Saturday, with due acknowledgement.  Thank you.

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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
Web: http://www.worldwidewords.org

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