How to While Away the Hours When the Days Are Numbered

The ScotsmanJune 20, 2010

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I HOPE you've come here looking for gossip, because boy, oh boy do I have some juicy titbits to share.

Gossip is much maligned in this tabloid-tastic world, but a quick consult with my Oxford English Dictionary tells me that way back in ye olde English days, when the word originated, it denoted godparents and their spiritual affinity to the babies they dandled at the font.

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How to While Away the Hours When the Days Are Numbered

By extension, gossip also meant a familiar acquaintance or friend, and very archaically, could mean someone you invited round to be present at the birth.

It's only whe...

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