“Throwing away”: where does this expression come from?

To throw in the jaille, or to throw in the jaille, is to put in the dustbin;

but, in these ecological times when we have to sort our waste, jaille has also taken on the meaning of waste disposal.

Without a doubt, the word jaille is more graceful than waste disposal;

however, it is difficult to discover its origin.

This word of good French origin makes the administrative term of repurgation pedantic and ridiculous.

Henri Barbot, in

, 1930, gives us this information:

by popular abbreviation for jetaille, the things that are thrown away.

This word of good French origin makes the administrative term of repurgation pedantic and ridiculous.

A second explanation seems more uncertain: throwing the jaille would come from the fact that the people of Nantes had their garbage dump in the town of Saint-Mars-la-Jaille, a town on the edge of the Loire.

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