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The Twittering of Birds
Jargon was originally the twittering of our feathered friends, because obviously it means everything to them and nothing at all to anybody else. It's probably a variant on whitter with an h, which in the sixteenth century meant to warble or twitter. So maybe itis all about jarring noises and e not to do with jargoon, but maybe it is. You never know the mystery. That's the wonder of the world of words and language. But we're not talking about birds. Doyo, kow. What cause? Well, you remember recently we talked in our pockaus called chenil, we talked about insects, and we only really scratched
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