GS>   Re: Guns
 GS>   By: mark lewis to Gregg Somes on Wed Feb 04 2004 11:23 am

 >>  GS> Guns are for those too week to swing swords!
 >>
 >> and those who can't fight with knives ;-)

 GS> I wonder what the word origin of 'gun' is.  Maybe a slingshot in
 GS> another language is gun.

Actually, that's close. from possibly abbreviated Mangonel, a catapault-like
device that threw stones {and other objects}. Also,is found in Olde English
and Gaelic, Possibly allied to Cannae, {reed, tube, from which is derived
cannon...}

From dictionary.com

Thanks for the chance to look it up !



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