Re: Ombud?

From: Douglas G. Kilday (fufluns_at_chorus.net)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:17:42 -0000

<endipatterson@yahoo.com> wrote in message ...
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> I think I've herd sth similar for butler. I can't remember the film,
> but I think it was Tim Curry who answered, "What exactly does a butler
> do?" - "I butle, sir."

The spelling that I have seen is <buttle>. In a Richie Rich comic book circa
1968, Cadbury reminisces about butler school, at the end of which the
instructor says "Go out into the world and buttle!".

As a back-formation <buttle> is parallel to <burgle> and probably <beg>, if
the derivation of <beggar> from <Beghard>, supposedly denoting a member of a
French mendicant order, is correct.