As most of my friends can attest, I’m a rather curious person. This might be strange for some people, as I’m known to pull out my blackberry looking for an answer for a question no one knows exactly how to answer. As a consequence, today I’m looking up sheriff, just…well…because!
So, the argument started with me wondering if the word had any relation with “sharif“, an “Arabic title of respect (…) Sharifs originally were heads of prominent families in a town.” (in Enciclopaedia Britannica) My husband kindly reminded me that the word was already used in Medieval England (e.g., the famous Sheriff of Nottingham), and so the search began.
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