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Re: Kibosh - the definitive origin?

Posted by David FG on September 01, 2004

In Reply to: Kibosh - the definitive origin? posted by James Briggs on September 01, 2004

The cabbage theory sounds a bit unlikely to me, for one thing, cabáiste is pronounced ka-bashta.

Why would anyone put a silver cabbage over the real one? It seems rather an elaborate ritual for what has always been a distinctly unglamorous vegetable!

Daithi Mac Giolla Gearailt