[Ads-l] Origin of Kibosh

[Stephen Goranson]

Given that American Dialect Society List was home to some of the discussion that in part led to it--say, e.g., George Thompson writing "...the common people have their own knowledge. Men from the cockney district may have been in Egypt & the Near East as soldiers or seamen, and seen the whip carried and used"-- some may be interested to know of a new publication:


Origin of Kibosh: Routledge Studies in Etymology

by Gerald Cohen, Stephen Goranson, and Matthew Little.

Routledge (Taylor & Francis). Hardback. Illustrated. ISBN 9781138628953


Stephen

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


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