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Old 07-22-2011, 08:06 AM   #3
DanaC
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I've mentioned before the origins of the word 'gossip', which is always used as a negative term and usually referencing female social conversation? It's derived from the term 'God's siblings', or 'God's sibs'.

They were the mothers, sisters, midwives and village women who gathered at a house when a woman was giving birth.
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