büro / bureau
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- johndiggity
when / where / how did this word come about and what does it mean exactly. any links to studios using this in their name are welcome as well. thanks.
- version30
bureau
1699, from Fr. bureau "office, desk," originally "cloth covering for a desk," from burel "coarse woolen cloth" (as a cover for writing desks), dim. of O.Fr. bure "dark brown cloth," which is perhaps either from L. burrus "red," or from L.L. burra "wool, shaggy garment." Offices being full of such desks, the meaning expanded 1720 to "division of a government."
- johndiggity0
thanks for the lesson. i always wondered why some shops were using it in their names.
- DavidFelt0
Buro Destruct
- mrdobolina0
werkburo
vormburo
- Cactus0
It's a Euro thang.
Sounds a bit mitteleuropa to me though...
Arbeit macht frei
- pascii0
büro = office
- t_rock0
steve martin:
"chapeau means hat, chat means cat, fromage means cheese... it's like those French have a word for everything!"
- Cactus0
LOL
Yes, we are an avuncular lot. Lot's of talk, talk, talk but nothing ever comes of it. I dream of the far west of Canada...smoking excellent kind and trapping beavers...how are things from your vantage point at the very edge of the known world?In all seriousness...of course. Par chance vous êtes québécois?
- t_rock0
non... côte ouest.
BC bud and all that wet coast goodness.
- -sputnik-0
bureau = office
like where bidness gets done
;)
- Cactus0
non... côte ouest.
BC bud and all that wet coast goodness.
t_rock
(Jan 4 06, 13:24)Haha,
Yes indeed.
- pascii0
office =
