Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ - : etymology ?

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Oct 2, 2:20 am, "Paul J Kriha" <paul.nospam.kr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Oh aye, you don't know what's an Ouija board?
Okay, here we go:

ayoc ayoc ... auog aug Auge ... auje auije ... ouije ouija ... OUIJA

There you are. Couldn't be easier!

Did you know that the term "ouija" was devised by the inventor of the
thing, ca., 1890, by combining the French and German words for 'yes'
for an item to be sold in the English-speaking market?

Actually, I think I read about it some 20-30 years ago.
But I admit, when I was writing the above "ayeaye-Auge-OY-Ouija"
piffle I didn't quite remember if the "oui" + "ja" was just a folksy
myth or not.

Well, here we are, distant echoes of Magdalenian reverberating
well into 1890s. Just shows how sound is the Franz's methodology.

pjk
(collecting timber to construct a Nonein(c) Board)


(And it's pronounced "Weegee" -- the famous NY crime photographer of
the 1930s took is pen name from it.)


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