Apr 26, 2019
What Is The Origin Of (228)?...
What Is The Origin Of (228)?…
First dibs
Watching children playing, they seem to be forever squabbling over who should have first go. Perhaps it is a vestige of an innate survival instinct. And there seems to be a special vocabulary that they use; “bags I go first” or “let me have first dibs.” It is the latter which will be the subject of this etymological enquiry.
The starting point is, not unsurprisingly, a game played by…
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