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Re:What Character Was Removed from the Alphabet? by atdrummond on Saturday June 17, 2023 @11:00AM (#36370760)
The reason I’m inclined to accept this narrative is that not only have I not seen any plausible alternative etymology, there is no alternative etymology available period.
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Re:What Character Was Removed from the Alphabet? by HWR_14 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:23PM (#36372927)
I would recommend against that methodology. A lot of etymology is not easy to find, but plausible etymology is easy to make up.
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Re:What Character Was Removed from the Alphabet? by mauvehaus on Saturday June 17, 2023 @03:33PM (#36373733)
You must know my wife. She's quite confident that the idiom "balls to the wall" has something to do with a person being put up against a wall to be executed by gunshot.
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