On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:15:31 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
>
>Just to be clear, the English idiom "it's in <someone's> court" (the
>Linux court, your court, etc.) comes not from the kind of court that
>sits in judgement, but from games like tennis where the ball goes from
>one side to the other, and when it is in someone's court, it is their
>responsibility to hit it back or face the consequences.
>
>Going way back, the root is the same - the King had his court,
>physical and conceptual, and all sorts of words, expressions, and
>idioms have branched out from it.
>
Court, garden, yard, horticulture, girdle, ...
http://www.20kweb.com/etymology_dictionary_Y/origin_of_the_word_yard.htm
-- gil
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