Comments on: Unable to Put the Kibosh on a Hard Word http://blog.oup.com/2010/05/kibosh/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 22 May 2013 15:58:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: "Not to Put Too Fine a Point Upon It": How Dickens Helped Shape the Lexicon : Word Routes : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus | TechRetriever http://blog.oup.com/2010/05/kibosh/#comment-249289 "Not to Put Too Fine a Point Upon It": How Dickens Helped Shape the Lexicon : Word Routes : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus | TechRetriever Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:25:36 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=9073#comment-249289 [...] earlier. (It’s still unclear where kibosh comes from: see articles by Michael Quinion and Anatoly Liberman for some [...] [...] earlier. (It’s still unclear where kibosh comes from: see articles by Michael Quinion and Anatoly Liberman for some [...]

]]> By: “It’s run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-semester!” | As a Linguist… http://blog.oup.com/2010/05/kibosh/#comment-221653 “It’s run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-semester!” | As a Linguist… Sat, 21 May 2011 04:04:33 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=9073#comment-221653 [...] factors involved in the term kibosh on World Wide Words  and even more great information on the Oxford University Press blog, but here’s the quick [...] [...] factors involved in the term kibosh on World Wide Words  and even more great information on the Oxford University Press blog, but here’s the quick [...]

]]> By: Link love: language (18) « Sentence first http://blog.oup.com/2010/05/kibosh/#comment-163190 Link love: language (18) « Sentence first Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:07:13 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=9073#comment-163190 [...] Netherlandish Proverbs. An exaltation of wordplay. Satirical syntax trees. The obscure etymology of kibosh. A love affair with pronouns. “Foot heads arms body.” Diagrams of grammatical tenses. [...] [...] Netherlandish Proverbs. An exaltation of wordplay. Satirical syntax trees. The obscure etymology of kibosh. A love affair with pronouns. “Foot heads arms body.” Diagrams of grammatical tenses. [...]

]]> By: OUPblog » Blog Archive » Monthly Gleanings: May 2010 http://blog.oup.com/2010/05/kibosh/#comment-162034 OUPblog » Blog Archive » Monthly Gleanings: May 2010 Wed, 26 May 2010 12:30:00 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=9073#comment-162034 [...] cannot be trusted. I am aware of this verdict (compare, among others, his enigmatic kyebosk for kibosh). His rendering of the Yorkshire dialect (in Nicholas Nickleby) and even of Cockney has been [...] [...] cannot be trusted. I am aware of this verdict (compare, among others, his enigmatic kyebosk for kibosh). His rendering of the Yorkshire dialect (in Nicholas Nickleby) and even of Cockney has been [...]

]]> By: mollymooly http://blog.oup.com/2010/05/kibosh/#comment-161797 mollymooly Sun, 23 May 2010 19:54:24 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=9073#comment-161797 I have seen the putative Irish "caip báis" also said to refer to the silk cap donned by a judge handing down a death sentence. Not that I give it more credence than the 1798 story. <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=mREnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA292" rel="nofollow">George W. M. Reynolds</a> has "kye-bosh" for a shilling coin, which is worth 12d. rather than 18d. AFAIK there was no 18d. coin; but that's not to say there was no slang name for the amount. I have seen the putative Irish “caip báis” also said to refer to the silk cap donned by a judge handing down a death sentence. Not that I give it more credence than the 1798 story.

George W. M. Reynolds has “kye-bosh” for a shilling coin, which is worth 12d. rather than 18d. AFAIK there was no 18d. coin; but that’s not to say there was no slang name for the amount.

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