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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Poking the Borax #14974 01/10/01 03:56 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi OP Carpal Tunnel OP Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Well, the OED, while not always authoritative, usually gets most things right. I still find it difficult to believe it came from borak, but, who knows? I rather fancy the explanation of the use of borax for gold assaying purposes, but ... The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Poking the Borax Capital Kiwi 01/08/01 01:00 AM Re: Poking the Borax Jackie 01/08/01 03:03 AM Re: Poking the Borax Capital Kiwi 01/08/01 05:48 AM Re: Poking the Borax NicholasW 01/08/01 11:22 AM Re: Poking the Borax Jackie 01/08/01 03:36 PM Re: Poking the Borax Capital Kiwi 01/09/01 04:06 AM Re: Poking the Borax NicholasW 01/09/01 08:32 AM Re: Poking the Borax Capital Kiwi 01/09/01 08:43 AM Re: Poking the Borax NicholasW 01/09/01 10:01 AM Re: Poking the Borax Bobyoungbalt 01/09/01 08:21 PM Post deleted by musick musick 01/09/01 11:31 PM Re: Poking the Borax tsuwm 01/10/01 12:28 AM Re: Poking the Borax Jackie 01/10/01 02:13 AM Re: Poking the Borax Capital Kiwi 01/10/01 03:56 AM Re: Poking the Borax NicholasW 01/10/01 01:51 PM Re: Poking Borak NicholasW 01/11/01 08:49 AM Re: Poking the Borax wsieber 01/11/01 12:19 PM Re: Poking the Borax NicholasW 01/11/01 01:07 PM Re: Poking the Borax of troy 01/10/01 02:15 PM Post deleted by musick musick 01/10/01 04:29 PM Re: Poking the Borax Jackie 01/10/01 04:36 PM Re: quoth the raven tsuwm 01/10/01 04:41 PM Re: Poking the Borax stales 01/09/01 04:40 PM chemistry lesson of troy 01/09/01 05:13 PM 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 Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,328 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 (), 939 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 15 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,539 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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