Re: WORD ORIGINS/Jail/Gaol


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Posted by Ian McColl on July 22, 2001 at 01:36:40:

In Reply to: WORD ORIGINS posted by Mark Lyons on June 25, 2001 at 01:33:15:

I was speaking to the curator of the Old Melbourne Gaol (Australia) last night and she says that Gaol is written so because there was no letter'J' in the old English alphabet.



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