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any ideas why a word whose etymology is "flat" or "smooth" comes to mean "cliff" or "grove of trees"?
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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A bluff has a smooth or flat face. The grove of trees could well have a face that is reminiscent of a bluff.
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old hand
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So, its bark is worse than its bight?
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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Compliments on your Dutch! From blaf to bark is mistery too, but I know by now language is just like people. No logic.
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