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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

S/he is called on for lots of stuff and they're lucky too.

How did 'so and so' end up as the term for an unnamed person?

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By *otSoNewWalesCoupleCouple
over a year ago

South Wales


"S/he is called on for lots of stuff and they're lucky too.

How did 'so and so' end up as the term for an unnamed person?

"

Good question. I have no answer.

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By *rontier PsychiatristMan
over a year ago

Coventry

No idea. Have you tried googling it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"S/he is called on for lots of stuff and they're lucky too.

How did 'so and so' end up as the term for an unnamed person?

Good question. I have no answer."

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Short for someone or somebody?

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Short for someone or somebody? "

Why have an 'and' in there then?

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"No idea. Have you tried googling it?"

Where's the fun in that?

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"Short for someone or somebody?

Why have an 'and' in there then?"

Dunno, maybe it's just evolved into that over the years like most language has. Dave Gorman did a good piece on so called Catphrases on one of his shows as well. Can't post the link, but it was aired on 22 Sept 2015

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol


"No idea. Have you tried googling it?

Where's the fun in that?"

I tried googling. And the fun in that was that it didn't solve the query at all (normally my Google Fu is on point so I now have further respect for the difficulty of the question) and has led me via various sidequests to an additional pondering. In science and scent and other sc words, is it the s or the c that is silent? I would hazard a guess that it is the c (hence psychology where the s is sounded and the hard rather than soft c forms the beginning of the second syllable) but I could be wrong. And I like a good ponder.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"No idea. Have you tried googling it?

Where's the fun in that?

I tried googling. And the fun in that was that it didn't solve the query at all (normally my Google Fu is on point so I now have further respect for the difficulty of the question) and has led me via various sidequests to an additional pondering. In science and scent and other sc words, is it the s or the c that is silent? I would hazard a guess that it is the c (hence psychology where the s is sounded and the hard rather than soft c forms the beginning of the second syllable) but I could be wrong. And I like a good ponder."

Is that why the French invented the cedilla ç

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

It orinates from the Yiddish language aparently

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

* Originates

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol


"Is that why the French invented the cedilla ç :-"

I think that just denotes a soft rather than hard c. Science is the same in both French and English (although it is feminine in French). Ça va bien!

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By *rontier PsychiatristMan
over a year ago

Coventry


"No idea. Have you tried googling it?

Where's the fun in that?

"

I'm such a killjoy. On the plus side I have learnt something new that I can beguile people with in general conversation.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"No idea. Have you tried googling it?

Where's the fun in that?

I tried googling. And the fun in that was that it didn't solve the query at all (normally my Google Fu is on point so I now have further respect for the difficulty of the question) and has led me via various sidequests to an additional pondering. In science and scent and other sc words, is it the s or the c that is silent? I would hazard a guess that it is the c (hence psychology where the s is sounded and the hard rather than soft c forms the beginning of the second syllable) but I could be wrong. And I like a good ponder."

Thank you for the Googling and I'm now pondering what you read that led you to ponder sc words.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"It orinates from the Yiddish language aparently"

Do you know which Yiddish word?

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"It orinates from the Yiddish language aparently

Do you know which Yiddish word?

"

Is schmuck a Yiddish word?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It orinates from the Yiddish language aparently

Do you know which Yiddish word?

Is schmuck a Yiddish word? "

Do you fancy a schmuck?

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"It orinates from the Yiddish language aparently

Do you know which Yiddish word?

Is schmuck a Yiddish word?

Do you fancy a schmuck?"

Oooh you're a right so and so you are

Hang on a minute, we've come full circle

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By *corpio67Man
over a year ago

hillingdon

Try the Cambridge English dictionary

It has some nswers

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"Try the Cambridge English dictionary

It has some nswers"

As long as it doesn't start with the letter "a"

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