[AGL] words

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as a little kid, loved to piss in the piscina


Free State of Menard
Texas Hill Country

--- On Mon, 5/11/09, gilbert shelton <shelton at noos.fr> wrote:


From: gilbert shelton <shelton at noos.fr>
Subject: Re: [AGL] words
To: mwheless at airmail.net, "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 11:27 AM


Spanish has a lot of Arabic words.  My favorite is Guadalajara (Waddi al Xara means River of Shit). 
Gilbert 
  
mwheless wrote: 
  



gilbo.....jusgar is verb to judgeI think it is of moor origin(basically arabs)English and Spanish are such rich languages made up of foreign influenceie English=Galic, Saxon, Pic, Irish, Welsh, Roman, Greek, etc, etcHope you]re doing well.Marilyn Wheless  
 Free State of MenardTexas Hill Country 
--- On Mon, 5/11/09, gilbert shelton <shelton at noos.fr> wrote: 
  
From: gilbert shelton <shelton at noos.fr> 
Subject: [AGL] words 
To: ghetto2 at two.pairlist.net, austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net 
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 10:51 AM 
  
All my literate friends! 
The word "hoosegow" popped up recently in some message or another, and 
it makes me want to ask you if you can contribute to my list of foreign 
words in English, especially ones that are misspelled.  "Hoosegow" comes 
from "juzgado", which means "courthouse" in Spanish (the courthouse is 
in the same building as the jail).  The English and the Spanish words 
are pronounced more or less the same. 
Also the homonyms contest: to find the greatest number of homonyms for a 
word in English.  The highest I have been able to think of is four 
(peak, peek, pique, peke) and, if you consider "I" to be a word (I, ay, 
aye, eye). 
Gilbert 
 


      
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