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The Hogarth painting of today's word leads to a movie of 1946 with Boris Karloff. (Val Lewton)Anyone ever seen it? Looks quite special. There's an image galery with detail photo's Link
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I remember this movie. It scared me as a kid.
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I remember this movie. It scared me as a kid. Ditto for my part.
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How, did your parents take you to scary movies? Till what age is a kid considered a kid? But.. the word bedlam is one of those that does not have the looks of what it means at all. I thought it was related to oorlam = a dram, a shot of liquor.
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I thought it was related to oorlam = a dram, a shot of liquor.
Laugh out loud. Bedlam is from the toponym Bethlehem.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I thought it was derived from the name of a mental hospital in London. 19th Century? Earlier? Maybe I'm thinking of the word, "parliament."
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I thought it was derived from the name of a mental hospital in London.
Yes the name of the institution was 'Bethlehem'
Though parliament falls in to Bedlam quite often.
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http://wordsmith.org/words/bedlam.htmlHere are the details; I always read the Word of the Day with attention. It is a toponym, but a bit of a lame word it seems to me. Bedlamite is synonymous to insane person.
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