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Thread #135431   Message #3092555
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
10-Feb-11 - 12:58 PM
Thread Name: Earliest Commercial Shanty Recordings
Subject: RE: Earliest Commercial Shanty Recordings
Shanty (the shack, hovel) is considered to have its origin in French chantier, building site, job site, depot; but in informal French, a mess, shambles.
Quel chantier ! - What a mess!
See Oxford English Dictionary. Not Irish according to the linguists.

Kibosh (kybosh)- origin obscure according to OED; some have proposed Yiddish or anglo-hebraic.

Galore- Irish.