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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: Swordmaker
Right you are, Swordy:

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’.

And not only is the language such a stew, but the entire culture and population are also. And here we are: all in a stew (pun intended)!

And not only the English, but everyone all over the world, whether they know it or not. The English are just more obvious--or maybe transparent is a better word--or maybe even congenial--than the rest.

56 posted on 05/02/2021 7:35:36 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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