Though now associated with a fun "thing" for kids by virtue of the work done in sequence by an engineering count and an author with some intelligence, some believe that its ultimate origins were far from kiddish. The first half (a double word construct) comes from an innocuous enough Sanskrit word with an epistolary nature that was borrowed by the Tommies. In the lonely barracks of World War Two, this may have been bonded with the second half (another double word construct) for the whole to signify that the bearer now had permission to partake in the pleasures of the "maisons tolérées".
What? Which author?
What? Which author?
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Chitty chitty bang bang.
Roald Dahl.
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