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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 5:56 pm |
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What do you call that ... when folks form two parallel lines, armed with clubs and whatnot's and then an unfortunate individual is made to run through it -- bloodied but hopefully still alive? Running through the ??
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 5:57 pm |
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Gaunlet.
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Gauntlet
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 5:58 pm |
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That's what I thought too!! But checking the online dictionary, it mentioned only gloves -- as in throwing down the gauntlet.
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 6:00 pm |
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Dig deeper:
"Word History: The spelling gauntlet is acceptable for both gauntlet meaning "glove" or "challenge" and gauntlet meaning "a form of punishment in which lines of men beat a person forced to run between them"; but this has not always been the case. The story of the gauntlet used in to throw down the gauntlet is linguistically unexciting: it comes from the Old French word gantelet, a diminutive of gant, "glove." From the time of its appearance in Middle English (in a work composed in 1449), the word has been spelled with an au as well as an a, still a possible spelling. But the gauntlet used in to run the gauntlet is an alteration of the earlier English form gantlope, which came from the Swedish word gatlopp, a compound of gata, "lane," and lopp, "course." The earliest recorded form of the English word, found in 1646, is gantelope, showing that alteration of the Swedish word had already occurred. The English word was then influenced by the spelling of the word gauntlet, "glove," and in 1676 we find the first recorded instance of the spelling gauntlet for this word, although gantelope is found as late as 1836. From then on spellings with au and a are both found, but the au seems to have won out."
-- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gauntlet
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 6:02 pm |
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OK, I haven't lost my mind after all (or at least not yet). Gentlemen, thank you!
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 6:25 pm |
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Who needs subscriptions to OED, when a post on backpacker.com costs nothing? 
I wonder how 'gauntlet' and 'gaunt' are related. Nothing in the definition of either seems to be relevant to the other.
Oh .. not to be TOO pedantic .. but, Ben, the phrase would be 'running the gauntlet', not 'running through the gauntlet'. I know, I know .. but you DID ask.
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 6:37 pm |
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Yes, running the gauntlet.
So... per Merriam Webster:
Origin of GAUNTLET [glove]
Middle English, from Middle French gantelet, diminutive of gant glove, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch want glove, Old Norse vǫttr
First Known Use: 15th century
Origin of GAUNTLET [line]
by folk etymology from gantelope
First Known Use: 1645
Which naturally begs the question of 'gantelope'. Again, per Merriam Webster:
Origin of GANTELOPE
modification of Swedish gatlopp, from Old Swedish gatulop, from gata road + lop course
First Known Use: 1646
So there. 
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 6:49 pm |
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The walk of shame
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After you do The Walk of Shame, you stand trial in The Kangaroo Court.
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 6:59 pm |
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A modern explanation for "running the gauntlet " is :
"The feeling experienced by a new poster upon making the first forum comment"
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 7:28 pm |
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North American Eastern Woodland Native people's tradition? Probably how it got a French word, Eastern Canada...
Well hah, not French at all,: "folk etymology", well, that would have been my next guess...
pgs 472-473
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 7:55 pm |
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Drift Woody's unofficial dictionary:
"The Gauntlet" is a woefully stupid Clint Eastwood film from the 1970's climaxed by a scene in which he and Sondra Locke (who else) drive a bus down a city street with hordes of cops on either side riddling the bus with gunfire without hitting Eastwood & Locke or the other cops on the opposite side of the street.
As I recall, an empty chair was not featured in this one.
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girls' bedroom...
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 8:42 pm |
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I thought bird was the word.
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 8:49 pm |
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"As I recall, an empty chair was not featured in this one. "
That is what happens when we fiddle with the language.
From gantlet we end up with gauntlet although a glove has nothing to do with it and from chairman we end up with "chair"
So now people address the chair and that is what Mr Eastwood was doing.
In tennis you start with an egg (l'oeuf) to end up with love.
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 8:52 pm |
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Folk etymology is just everywhere.
Who knew?
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Posted on: Dec. 11 2012, 9:42 pm |
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Why is there a new initiation for this forum?
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When looking for a word, I usually find it in the last place I left it! 
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If you keep doing that, you'll go blind!
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Sounds like Black Friday at Walmart
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