It occurred to me today that I really should be demanding my money back from this forum. I first posted to AWADtalk asking how "fiasco" came to mean what it does in English. No one had the bottle to answer me. The onliest other serious word question I asked was about the origins of the NZ usage of huckery, a usage not even recorded in the OED.
Since this place is now 0 for 2, I suggest renaming this forum simply, "Questions about Words".
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