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JD Hawthorne:
March 7th, 2013 at 7:43 pm
I was wondering if the French “tomber” meaning to fall, is the root meaning for yelling “timber” when felling a tree. Quebec was, and is known for its forestry. To yell “falling” makes better sense to me. The English speakers probably heard this as “timber”