Gobemouche I'd denied the seeming relationship between this word and the British gob for mouth. Andy Behrens argued otherwise: "Gober and gob are cognates. Both derive from the same Celtic root word for beak or mouth: the English gob by way of Irish, the French gober by way of Gaulish (the Celtic language spoken in France before the arrival of the Romans)."
Published on December 03, 2011 01:00