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Re: CHAT Loo (was: Lavatories, bathrooms,...etc)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, March 1, 2004, 11:30
Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

> I have a great affection for folk etymology, generally finding the > picturesque preferable to the merely accurate. Anyone got any more good > folk etymologies?
Some people have mangled Sw _universitet_ "university" to _undervisitet_, which would mean something like "educatity". Andreas

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