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Show "TO BASH." The expressive verb "to bash" has become be-come the common property of the whole country, so that It Is Impossible to determine deter-mine the local origin of the laborer at the Laindon Farm colony who, according to the evidence given at the Poplar Inquiry, threatened to come and "bash" bis wife if she did not send him four shillings. But where did the verb come from originally? According to Halliwell, from Bedfordshire. Yet elsewhere we And It asserted that the proverb A woman, a whelp, and a walnut tree. The more you bash 'em the better they be, is from the west country. Dr. Murray's dictionary again finds "bash" chiefly used In the north. Probably the genius of any part of England would have been equal to evolving this excellent word, which it thought possibly to be a portmanteau combination com-bination of "beat" or "bang" with the vigorous vig-orous sound of "thrash" or "smash." London Lon-don Chronicle. |