ety. of "shanty"

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> This sounds suspiciously like a contribution from the "How the Entire English Lexicon Derived from Irish" guy who used to post here regularly.
>

He has since had his work published. Available from Amazon.com. And
you thought he got his etymologies from the bottom of a jug of Wild
Irish Rose! Well, publication doesn't preclude that possibility, I
reckon.

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