"Three recent theories of 'kibosh'"...

[Stephen Goranson]

...is the title of Anatoly Liberman's blog today, available here:

http://blog.oup.com/2013/08/three-recent-theories-of-kibosh-word-origin-etymology/

The article mentioned there by David L. Gold is available here:

http://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/22599/1/Revista_Alicantina_de_Estudios_Ingleses_24_04.pdf

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

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