By contrast, Henry Cecil Wyld, an Englishman who was contemptuous of vulgarisms, gave gibberish with j– in his 1932 dictionary. The second edition of The Century Dictionary (1911), an American reference work, also favored hard g. In the middle of the 20th century, Daniel Jones, the author of the most important pronouncing dictionary of British English, listed the variant with j– as rare. Skeat, an Englishman who died in 1912, was not aware of gibberish ever having j. However, I will probably not err if I state that the prevailing, perhaps the only, pronunciation of this word in to-day’s American English is with initial j. Although one hears a lot of gibberish, especially in Academia and politics, the word gibberish has low frequency in conversation. I have highlighted a noun, because gibberish resembles an adjective (compare bookish, childish) and makes one think of the names of languages ( Danish, Swedish, etc.).The other variants can be passed over in silence, except for guibbridge (a 17-century form), which indicates the pronunciation with so-called hard g, that is, with g as in give. No citations of gibberish predate 1554, a noun that has also been recorded with e in the first syllable ( gebberish) and – dge at the end ( gibberidge).
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(4) With three telescopic boom sections and an articulating jib, sections of pump hose are added as needed to accommodate the distance to placement. (3) The 20-foot placing jib both rotates and articulates, allowing access to the pump discharge around corners and through windows. (2) But, although I jib slightly at the supernatural Skellig's curative powers and the sentimental conclusion, the story has legs as well as wings. (1) The jib or projecting arm of a crane probably derives from gibbet, and gibe and gybe are often written jibe.
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