WNW: St. Patrick's Edition

Just for fun, I thought I'd do a little digging to find out the background of some words centered around St. Patrick's Day and/or Ireland.
Here's some of what I found:
slogan According to my trusty OED, back in the 1500s in both Ireland and Scotland, a slogan was a war- or battle-cry. A slogan usually used a person's family name or a location that they'd yell out.
It comes from sluagh-ghairm, which, broken down meant host (sluagh) + cry or shout (ghairm).
Quite a different meaning today, when...
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Published on March 17, 2010 12:42
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