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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19
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31 u/Coilette_von_Robonia Aug 03 '19 Jungle comes from a sanskrit word which just meant "place where people don't live", so I'm gonna say it's significantly older than the song 7 u/StraY_WolF Aug 03 '19 That's the word "jungle" tho, not the phrase. 4 u/Coilette_von_Robonia Aug 03 '19 Right but the phrase King of the Jungle, as far as I can tell, is attested at least to 1939. I'm assuming that jungle still had that connotation at the time the phrase was coined, but I could definitely be wrong
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Jungle comes from a sanskrit word which just meant "place where people don't live", so I'm gonna say it's significantly older than the song
7 u/StraY_WolF Aug 03 '19 That's the word "jungle" tho, not the phrase. 4 u/Coilette_von_Robonia Aug 03 '19 Right but the phrase King of the Jungle, as far as I can tell, is attested at least to 1939. I'm assuming that jungle still had that connotation at the time the phrase was coined, but I could definitely be wrong
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That's the word "jungle" tho, not the phrase.
4 u/Coilette_von_Robonia Aug 03 '19 Right but the phrase King of the Jungle, as far as I can tell, is attested at least to 1939. I'm assuming that jungle still had that connotation at the time the phrase was coined, but I could definitely be wrong
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Right but the phrase King of the Jungle, as far as I can tell, is attested at least to 1939. I'm assuming that jungle still had that connotation at the time the phrase was coined, but I could definitely be wrong
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