Wild Word Friday! To consider the origin of the word GOBBLE, we need to go back to the Celts, who gave us the word gober, meaning to gulp down or swallow. From gober we get gobbet, a morsel of food, particularly meat, and we also find the related word, gob, in various Gaelic dialects, which…
Wild Word Friday! Now that we’re all probably still eating leftovers, I thought it would be interesting to look at the word TURKEY. I’m referring to the bird not the dork. For some reason, I’ve always thought the word TURKEY had its roots in some Native American language, and it was just coincidental that a country also shared…
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