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Colleen Patrick Gudrow your host. Today we're going to talk about two common

words with animal origins, both of which originated

from the killing of animals, but which now both have a more general meaning. You might not even see the animal in at least the first

word and we're going to talk about that one first and that is the word shambles no doubt you have used the word shambles. No doubt you have used the word shambles,

if you've ever referred to something that's in complete disarray.

It refers to a place or a situation or a condition that is in disorder, that is completely

disorganized, that is in complete and utter chaos.

And might I even say it's a place of carnage.

And the reason I say that word

is because the original meaning of the word shambles refers to a butcher's slaughterhouse. It comes into

modern English from middle English the word shamamel or shamel house, which refers to a place where animals were

butchered and sold.

And that word shamel actually comes from Old English, which is the word for table, because it refers to the table or bench or stool, where

butchers displayed their cuts of animal flesh.

The shambles itself, the reason we have this word still today in the English language,

is because the word itself was used as the name of a street in York in England. It's a little

street in York and it was called the shambles because that was the street on

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