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Gibberish and gobbledygook refer to speech or other use of language that is nonsense, or that appears to be nonsense. It may include speech sounds that are not actual words, or forms such as language games or highly specialized jargon that seems non-sensical to outsiders. Gibberish should not be confused with literary nonsense such as that used in the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. The word ''gibberish'' is more commonly applied to speech, while ''gobbledygook'' (sometimes ''gobbledegook'', ''gobbledigook'' or ''gobbledegoo'') is more often applied to writing. "Officialese", "legalese", or "bureaucratese" are forms of gobbledygook. The related word ''jibber-jabber'' refers to rapid talk that is difficult to understand. ==Etymology== The term ''gibberish'' was first seen in English in the early 16th century. Its etymology is not certain, but it is generally thought to be onomatopoeia imitative of speech, similar to the related words ''jabber'' (to talk rapidly) and ''gibber'' (to speak inarticulately). Less widely accepted theories assert that it is derived from the Irish word ''gob'' or ''gab'' (mouth) or from the Irish phrase ''Geab ar ais'' (back talk, backward chat). The latter Irish etymology was suggested by Daniel Cassidy, whose work has been criticised by linguists and scholars. The terms ''geab'' and ''geabaire'' are certainly Irish words, but the phrase ''geab ar ais'' does not exist, and the word gibberish exists as a loan-word in Irish as ''gibiris''. Another theory is that ''gibberish'' comes from the name of the famous 8th-century Islamic alchemist Jābir ibn Hayyān, whose name was Latinized as "Geber", thus the term "gibberish" arose as a reference to the incomprehensible technical jargon often used by Jabir and other alchemists who followed. According to Michael Quinion on his World Wide Words website ''gobbledygook'' was first coined on 21 May 1944 by Maury Maverick, a congressman from Texas. His comments, recorded in the ''New York Times Magazine'', were made when Maverick was the Democratic chairman of the US Congress Smaller War Plants Committee. He was being critical of the obscure language used by other committee members. The allusion was to a turkey, "always gobbledy gobbling and strutting with ludicrous pomposity." It is sometimes abbreviated slightly to gobbledygoo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= World Wide Words Michael Quinion )〕 Contemporary reports, as shown by a United Press dispatch published in the ''Pittsburgh Press'', identify the date of Maverick's statement as March 31. Maverick's message includes the following sentence: "Stay off the gobbledygook language. It only fouls people up."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gibberish」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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