Origins Quiz — Monday, October 5, 2026

What word has two rival French origins? One is the 'voice of the town'; the other is the valley of the river Vire in Normandy, where a 15th-century cloth-fuller was said to write satirical drinking songs. Either way, it named a kind of comic song before it named a theater, and reached American variety stages in the 1870s.

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