"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:3d6d7add$1@news.povray.org...
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> "hughes b" <omn### [at] charternet> wrote in message
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> > I just don't even know why the word dibs exists so please don't ask
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>    Bob, why does....   ;)

Glad you asked, Steve.
 >:-(
Well I just had to know what dibs originates from and what I found is that
it's apparently a contraction of the word dibstones (dib possibly being a
change of the word dab too); which itself can be pretty meaningless, until
you know it is something from a childrens game like jacks where you would
grab them up in a certain way to win. Dibstones were sheep knucklebones I
guess (weird huh?), something I've never heard of, but the metal jacks
supposedly replaced them. Not positive about it, just gathered that from
what I read.

When I try to find out what bagsey originated from I get nowhere. ha ha ha

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