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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Scot's "spree" #124239 03/01/2004 2:03 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park TEd posted about glom-- (and thanks Grapho-- i never thought about glom being at the heart of conglomerate!) this week PBS had a special on cows (and all the dairymen refered to the herd as cows, and all the beef men had herds of cattle!)and they pointed out the word SPREE, (as in a shopping spree) comes from scot's english for a cattle raid! how about a word spree-- as we find and explore all the fun words that have come into common english from scotish english? my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Scot's "spree" of troy 03/01/2004 2:03 PM con + glomera + te jheem 03/01/2004 2:16 PM Re: Scot's "spree" Jackie 03/01/2004 2:50 PM Re: Scot's "spree" wwh 03/01/2004 2:57 PM Re: Scot's "spree" Jackie 03/01/2004 3:10 PM Re: Scot's "spree" dxb 03/01/2004 4:56 PM Re: Scot's "spree" Zed 03/02/2004 12:21 AM Re: Scot's "spree" Father Steve 03/02/2004 3:51 AM Re: Scot's "spree" Capfka 03/02/2004 7:17 AM Re: Scot's "spree" jheem 03/02/2004 12:57 PM Re: Scot's "spree" dxb 03/02/2004 2:51 PM Re: Scot's "spree" jheem 03/03/2004 4:48 AM Re: Scot's "spree" dxb 03/03/2004 11:55 AM Re: Scot's "spree" jheem 03/03/2004 2:09 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 Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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