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slew (a lot)

A 'whole slew' of things is an Irish host: sluagh means a crowd or army, and the same word is the first half of slogan. The word is American, from Irish immigrants of the 1830s, and has nothing to do with slew, the past tense of slay.

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The road to American English

From Middle Irish to Scottish Gaelic

800 CEOld Irish

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