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Thread #100667 Message #2022348
Posted By: John MacKenzie
11-Apr-07 - 01:22 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Smerkin mekin, old English -translation?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Smerkin mekin, old English -translat
Well in Italian caricare is load, and scaricare is unload, this leads me to deduce that merkin has Latin roots linguistically, and smerkin means, get it off! G.