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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)."

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