Shhh…. I was just telling the “commoners” this as I didn’t want them to know that either you or I show up when someone yells “Say Uncle”. It’s like the whole fiasco Santa Claus went through a few years back when people started writing about him!
from what I understand uncle is believed to have come from the irish immigrants in playing mercy…there word for mercy is “anocol” and sounds very similar to uncle when spoken quickly or the one shouting it is in great pain.
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:18 am
Shhh…. I was just telling the “commoners” this as I didn’t want them to know that either you or I show up when someone yells “Say Uncle”. It’s like the whole fiasco Santa Claus went through a few years back when people started writing about him!
Marina
Your trusty philologist
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:39 am
Santa Claus? I’m Claustrophobic.
July 25th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
from what I understand uncle is believed to have come from the irish immigrants in playing mercy…there word for mercy is “anocol” and sounds very similar to uncle when spoken quickly or the one shouting it is in great pain.