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GAOL, or JAIL

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 455 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GAOL, or JAIL , a See also:prison (q.v.). The two forms of the word are due to the parallel dual forms in Old Central and See also:Norman See also:French respectively, jaiole or jaole, and gaiole or geyolle. The See also:common origin is the med. See also:Lat. gabiole, a diminutive formed from caved, a hollow, a den, from which the See also:English "See also:cave " is derived. The See also:form " gaol " still commonly survives in English, and is in See also:official usage, e.g. " gaol-delivery," but the common See also:pronunciation of both words, " jail," shows the real surviving word.

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