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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread The origin of the term barditch #138925 02/09/05 04:56 PM Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 1 W WITTYGIRL21 OP stranger OP WITTYGIRL21 stranger W Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 1 Does anyone know the true meaning & origin of the term barditch? Obviously it is used in Texas (they have website named that) What is the difference between a ditch and a barditch?? Thanks for any input! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The origin of the term barditch #138926 02/09/05 05:13 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 P plutarch veteran plutarch veteran P Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 Does anyone know the true meaning & origin of the term barditch? Tsuwm came closest to answering this question seriously when Fundybayirl* [also a "Stranger"] asked the same question on July 19, 2004. Here is tsuwm's response: bar ditch is Western alteration of 'borrow ditch', which NI3 defines as "a ditch dug along a roadway to furnish fill and provide drainage" -- none of which 'splains nothin'. except that the roadfill is borrowed from the ditch, I suppose. hmmm. roadfill. seems like there's a rhyme there somewhere... * Here is Fundybaygirl's question: I an reading a story which takes place in west Texas. The author routinely refers to the excavation on either side of a county road as a "barditch". I can't find the word in any on-line or hard copy dictionary. Does anyone know the origin of the word and why people from Texas might use it? Does anyone else use this word in place of simple old "ditch"? http://www.wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=131839 Looks like the term "barditch" took almost a year to work its way out up to you from Fundy Bay, Wittygirl21. :) [We should put tags on some of these word critters. Then we could study their migration routes like they do Monarch butterflies.] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The origin of the term barditch #138927 02/09/05 06:21 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York This link will get you to the same place without making the screen go wide: http://www.wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=131839 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The origin of the term barditch #138928 02/09/05 06:50 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass that's right; for links within these forums just cut off everything after the six-digit number and chuck it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The origin of the term barditch #138929 02/09/05 07:56 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 P plutarch veteran plutarch veteran P Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 re small screen link I used yours. Thanks. I found the link to wordsmith.org on Google. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,361 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 727 guests, and 5 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 35 A C Bowden 22 LukeJavan8 3 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,557 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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