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GUEST,Guest, Big Tim	Origins: Musha ringum duram da... (120* d)	RE: Origins: Musha ringum duram da...	25 Sep 05
I'm currently reading Frank O'Connor's "An Only Child" (1961). In it, he has his father saying to his mother "wisha, is it the way you want to make the child look like a convict"? "Wisha" is a variant spelling of "musha". It was a real word, not a nonsense one. In present day Irish English there are thousands of words of Gaelic roots, the origins of which are now mostly unknown and forgotten. I repeat, the fact that you don't understand a word doesn't make it nonsense.

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