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To: Savage Beast

Muumuu is not an English word.


39 posted on 05/01/2021 6:58:04 PM PDT by Mears (.)
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To: Mears; Savage Beast
Muumuu is not an English word.

Actually, it is. English is a language that just doesn’t borrow words from other languages, when English encounters a new language, it brow bears, mugs, and steals that languages’ words, files the serial numbers off, and incorporates its unique words into the Mulligan Stew that is the English tongue.

53 posted on 05/02/2021 1:18:40 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: Mears
Oxford Dictionary of English

muumuu |ˈmuːmuː| noun
a woman's loose, brightly coloured dress, especially one traditionally worn in Hawaii.
ORIGIN early 20th century: from Hawaiian mu'u mu'u, literally ‘cut off’.

Apologies will be accepted as made.

You’re welcome.

55 posted on 05/02/2021 7:28:57 AM PDT by Savage Beast (“Morality, like a chameleon, tends to take on the color of the circumambient society.” P. Yogananda)
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