THE MEANING OF "BOSCHE."
[To THE EDITOR OP THR "SPECTATOR."1 SIE,—The Allies—Italy and Great,Britain, France and Russia —have for months been exercising their wits as to the deriva- tion of the word "Boodle." There was not any doubt that its source, or origin, was odious, and that it was a loathing and an opprobrious term. A young Alsatian was tried by the Germans at the Court of Dessau for writing the word "Bosebe," in derision of the Kaiser. The lineal descendants of the Huns could not, or did not, publish the definition, though they punished the youth. M. Theodore Joran, Pro- fessor of History, states in the Revue des Deuce Mondes that in Littro the meaning of " Bosche " is given as ulcer; pestilential tumour; in old Picard boche ; in Norman bosche ; in Bas Breton boa, boson. The word is evidently derived from the Low Latin boscia, boscium. It is attached, according to the Professor, to the Latin, bucca, bouche. —I am, Sir, Ste.,
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