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[liblue1]

I will say FACT................

Americans this weekend will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the poem that became the nation’s national anthem, a bit of verse written by a pro-slavery lawyer put to the melody of a British song that praised drinking and sex.
Related story: 'Star-Spangled Banner': Anthem was once a song of drinking and sex - LA Times

 

[catsitter]

CRaP
Good old wikipedia again:
Francis Scott Key gave the poem to his brother-in-law Judge Joseph H. Nicholson who saw that the words fit the popular melody "The Anacreontic Song", by English composer John Stafford Smith. This was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London. Nicholson took the poem to a printer in Baltimore, who anonymously made the first known broadside printing on September 17; of these, two known copies survive.

 

[mac63]

Crap

 

[DrBeaker]

FACT or CRaP

The music for the Star Spangle Banner was originally used for a drinking song.

It is a FACT

 

[DrBeaker]

FACT or CRaP

The word bizarre probably comes from the word for beard in the Basque language.

 

[motordude]

Fact

 

[catsitter]

Close enough, I'll say Fact!

 

[liblue1]

CRaP........I believe it was french........

 

[Mogar]

Crap...

1640-50; < French < Italian bizzarro lively, capricious, eccentric, first attested (circa 1300) in sense “irascible”; of disputed orig.

 

[mac63]

FACT or CRaP

The word bizarre probably comes from the word for beard in the Basque language.

There are a few possibilities on the origin and the beard is one even though it's not well supported by evidence.
So I'll go with

Fact


Bizarre was borrowed into English from French in the middle of the 17th century. The current sense of odd or fantastic has been with us since the word was introduced into English. It had that meaning in French as well, although previously in French it had the meaning of brave or like a soldier.

Where the French picked up the word is somewhat unclear. In Spanish and Portugeuse, bizarro means handsome or brave and is clearly related to the French in some way, although the French word appears before the Spanish one, so it is unlikely that the French picked up the word from Spanish. Instead, it probably comes from Italian, where bizzarro means angry, and has a root, bizza, meaning fit of anger.

There is a commonly touted etymology for bizarre that claims the word is originally from the Basque bizzarra, meaning beard. This explanation is not well supported by evidence.

 

[Ladybear]

Fact

 

[DrBeaker]

FACT or CRaP

The word bizarre probably comes from the word for beard in the Basque language.

It is a FACT

 

[DrBeaker]

FACT or CRaP

Malawi's national anthem is Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, but with the new lyrics in the Banda language.

 

[catsitter]

CRaP on both counts - Mlungu dalitsani Malaŵi (en:O God bless our land of Malaŵi) is the national anthem of Malawi. It was composed by Michael-Fredrick Paul Sauka, who also wrote the words. It was adopted in 1964 as a result of a competition. And it's in Chichewa, not Banda.

 

[motordude]

Crap. Nowhere close

 

[Mogar]

Crap...

 

[liblue1]

I will say CRaP..............

 

[SailCat]

Crap. Not possible.

Great game!

 

[mac63]

Crap

 

[Ladybear]

Crap it is!!!