The best that The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed., via ) can do is to throw up its hands and declare 'Origin unknown. Of course this is unattested (no evidence to support it) and I can't say yes or no on it. I was once told that the G stood for 'genital' (as in 'the genital organs'), because that is all it covers. it could be a short term forgamma string.gamma is known as a letter of the greek alphabet which looks like a y.this y shape looks like this sexy.

A linguist could tell you if the consonant sound '-str-' is common in the Sioux language or any Plains Indian language.

It was shortened to 'g-string,' possibly by contamination from the notion of stringed instruments like guitars and violins, by 1891, at which time we find this interesting quotation in Harper's Magazine: 'Some of the boys wore only 'G-strings' (as, for some reason, the breech-clout is commonly called on the prairie).' This suggests that the word may have been of Sioux or other Plains Indian origin.'īut.

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Why are they called g strings