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Tim Entwisle's Blog – August 2011 Archive (1)
Worldly words ending in -oo
This post might be useful to you if you are searching for a rhyme but it will also help you to get an inkling of the wonderful way English adopts words from other languages and from local dialects when it has a need.
I was thinking about hullabaloo as my word of the week. When I tried to guess its origin I found that I was completely wrong—it is a native to England and Scotland. I had thought that all words ending in -oo must come…
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