[lbo-talk] toponyms

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at enterprize.net.au
Thu Jun 12 08:48:21 PDT 2003


Here's my two bob's worth:

hamburger, gypsy (from Egypt), dollar (from some really obscure German place called Taler or Daler apparently), denim, bungalow (Bengal), bible (the Phoenician city byblos), rugby, wellingtons (as in gumboots), blarney



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