Probably the reason that insane asylum was called …
Comment posted on Bedlam by zendiz
Probably the reason that insane asylum was called Bedlam because of 2 dutch words. Bed + Lam. Bed means bed in english, so it’s the same and Lam means Paralyzed. In other words forced to the bed or could be interpreted as incapacitated, without force to walk around in a “normal way”, or ill. Ill-minded. Also Lame could come from Lam. As in “that’s lame” or too soft, or boring..
Anyway insane asylum called Bedlam => which causes the expression.
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it’s not ‘dra-hen’ you can really pronounce the word as dré-n or dréhyn (accent on e like Dr Dré or André, which is by the way a french name 
), though in dutch the word is “draaien” which is pronounced ‘drahyen’ but with a longer and high a. pfff if i should explain this using phonetic writing i would get lost myself.
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