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Thread #9466 Message #2859027
Posted By: GUEST,mayomick
08-Mar-10 - 07:16 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Is Green Sleeves really Irish?
Subject: RE: Origins: Is Green Sleeves really Irish?
Around 1192, there's no way you could have come up with the month though is there Smokey ? What I find interesting about the uillean /union question is the closeness of the sounds of the two words . Even though they have different meanings, they describe the same phenomenom . But isn't an elbow a sort of a union , a joint between the upper and lower parts of the arm ? Is that a coincidence or is there any etymological (ahem) connection. I don't think there is anything wrong with speculation about origins of songs or words - or anything else for that matter .So long as people don't try to pass their speculations off as facts .