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Gina:

Etymology

The word is from Old English godsibb, from god and sibb, the term for the godparents of one's child or the parents of one's godchild, generally very close friends. In the 16th century, the word assumed the meaning of a person, mostly a woman, one who delights in idle talk, a newsmonger, a tattler.[4] In the early 19th century, the term was extended from the talker to the conversation of such persons. The verb to gossip, meaning "to be a gossip", first appears in Shakespeare.

The term originates from the bedroom at the time of childbirth. Giving birth used to be a social (ladies only) event, in which a pregnant woman's female relatives and neighbours would gather. As with any social gathering there was chattering and this is where the term gossip came to mean talk of others

Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip


"Old Women Gossiping" by artist:  Ron Mueck

acomplishedartis:

--- Quote from: Gina on February 10, 2012, 08:21:51 AM ---Is it possible to gossip about oneself? hehe

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?? I guess...? is it?


--- Quote from: Samson on February 10, 2012, 10:23:51 PM ---Gossip leads to many other problems, maybe it's started Wars too, Samson.


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Today I was reading these acts, and tonight while reading this posts, the next example came to mind:

(Diaglott)Act 13:48  Having heard and the Gentiles rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord; and believed as many as were having been disposed for life age-lasting.
Act 13:49  Was published and the word of the Lord through whole of the country.
Act 13:50  The but Jews stirred up the religious women the honorable, and the chiefs of the city, and raised a persecution against the Paul and the Barnabas, and cast out them from the borders of them.
Act 13:51  They but having shaken off the dust of the feet of them against them, came into Iconium.

Religious Gossip woman's must be extremely dangerous...

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