30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
12:01 a.m.
Huw Davies wrote:
On 30/03/2005, at 11:57 AM, Tom Jennings wrote:
Doubtless from the Scots word "cludgie", meaning outside toilet. Since
we don't have those any more, it refers to any rather squalid toilet -
think about the bookmaker scene in Trainspotting.
Gordon.
I know this could be the start of YET ANOTHER
thread "Oh I think
it's older than that..." but to avoid that, let's raise the
standard from opinion/hearsay to printed word.
Well kludge has been in common use in Queensland (Australia) since at
least the early 1900s as the name of an outside toilet. This probably
pre-dates any computing reference :-)
In Queensland it's pronounced to rhyme with judge,