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Where Did Shambles Originate From?

Shamble, etymologists explain, was a common West Germanic borrowing of Latin’s scamellum, a diminutive of scamnum, a ‘bench’ or a ‘stool’. Modern German’s Schemel, for example, retains this earlier meaning of shamble, while the word took a much different direction in English – the direction of metaphorical extension. Where did Shambles come from? Etymology. “Shambles” …

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