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Thread #40474 Message #3530752
Posted By: Bob Bolton
26-Jun-13 - 06:48 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Click Go the Shears
Subject: RE: Origins: Click Go the Shears
G'day Snuffy,
... German origins ( if not ultimately original ... that wwould have been "Ugh!" in ancient proto-human ...) are appropriate to discussing what we call 'English' ... which is at the western end of West Germanic languages - even if it has plundered most other European .(and not a few 'colonial' languages) along the way!