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In Reply to: today's tom turkey tangle posted by mhardy6647 on April 12, 2017 at 11:57:55:
Tom-Cat, Tom-Boy, Tom-Turkey.
Who is Tom and why is he so popular...?
I was wondering about that, then I saw your post.
Any ideas?
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- What's the deal with "Tom" ? - oldmkvi 07:13:05 04/13/17 (13)
- the etymology of this in English dates back at least as far as the mid 16C CE - Timbo in Oz 18:59:21 04/13/17 (3)
- With tom added to boy forming tom-boy, applied to boisterous young males.-Whoops! - oldmkvi 08:53:15 04/15/17 (2)
- No, the created term tomboy didn't shift to girls until a century or two later. - Timbo in Oz 14:20:42 04/15/17 (1)
- Transgender Language. What's Old is New! nt - oldmkvi 15:18:20 04/15/17 (0)
- Knock off the Tom foolery!... - musetap 15:35:23 04/13/17 (1)
- Yup, that's a Good One. But.... - oldmkvi 08:55:01 04/15/17 (0)
- no idea, unfortunately (nt) - mhardy6647 12:23:29 04/13/17 (6)
- RE: no idea, unfortunately (nt) - Inmate51 16:21:52 04/13/17 (5)
- I don't think that this forum s/w will allow a completely empty message field - mhardy6647 07:21:10 04/14/17 (4)
- When I use nt, so the reader won't have to open the post to see there is no further message, - oldmkvi 08:58:38 04/15/17 (0)
- RE: I don't think that this forum s/w will allow a completely empty message field - Inmate51 09:34:31 04/14/17 (2)
- oh, heck, everybody knows that! :) - mhardy6647 08:23:18 04/15/17 (1)
- RE: oh, heck, everybody knows that! :) - Inmate51 10:06:51 04/15/17 (0)