Wednesday, July 25, 2007

The Polite Gargoyle

The word "gargoyle" comes from the French "gargouille", meaning "throat", because originally these carvings were placed at the outlets of rain gutters and made a gurgling sound. Nowadays they look much cuter and do much less gurgling.

1 comment:

wildmary said...

so, you think the word "gurgle" comes from that gaggle of great gurgling gargoyles as they gagged on gutter water??