Lesley: You are "sort of right" and I was 'sort of right' , too.
Calabozo is the Spanish term. What I was thinking I was writing should have been "calaboose" , the internationally accepted term for jail...
And the one i forgot was hoosegow, also a jail....widely used in the SW USA ( from the Spanish Juzgado)
HB
And we all forgot one we learned in kindergarten(from the German), which is paper maché, and something we learned along the way: Macho-machoism.
The list can grow enormously, since English is perhaps the language with the most "loan words"....Just read a dictionary.....
Last edited by Hillbilly; 06-25-2006 at 10:12 AM..
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