Show Budet Budget Original Massing The word budget can be traced back jack to the Latin word bulga but It Is believed that this was WOI Itself an adaptation of ot a word from the Celtic lUc language of old Gaul It lt meant f leather ieather bag bog and from It we WI have hue havethe the he old English bouse bouie a bag and budget a a little bag which wa was In n slang used to mean something like a III bag of tricks In 1733 a pamphlet on Sir Walpole's forthcoming excl excise cie e bill was wal published entitled The Budget Opened the phrase being used as equivalent to the cat out of ofHie the Hie bag Henceforth a chancellor of the exchequer making his bli statement ment of proposed taxes was wal said laId to open his Ills budget and soon lOOn the Ule word budget was u used ed without Jocular Intent In ta- tent of ot the statement itself Montreal Montreal Family Herald |