More Word Geeking
Jul. 11th, 2006 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnomiThings I've learned tonight (with obscenities):
-- "Broke" to mean "out of money" dates from the late 1600s
-- "Gotten" was in use in British English as late as the 1890s
-- "Bugger" dates to the 1790s as a "coarse slang" interjection.
I loves me the OED. :-)
-- "Broke" to mean "out of money" dates from the late 1600s
-- "Gotten" was in use in British English as late as the 1890s
-- "Bugger" dates to the 1790s as a "coarse slang" interjection.
I loves me the OED. :-)
