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Thursday, April 14, 2005

Somebody should really do something about what Doug reports, like, say, somebody who works at a newspaper or something.

Hey, does anybody know if there's an etymological connection between "bordello" and the Czech word "bordel"?

1 Comments:

Blogger Jan Vaněk jr. said...

Ji?í Rejzek's ?eský etymologický slovník from 2001 says "from German Bordell from Old French bordel - hut from boards/planks." Machek's 1950-60es one is silent on the word :-)

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