Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-15

rho word, slang" ~ applied 10
n,a terms now under cpusid, ration, is
yprv ipappropriate-rc' since IL
comics from the Latin verb stingo,
siu11,rc ungsi, auBgsunt, meaning,
.a ,ou very well Know, ITO talk
c1aisely.n Hence IL 10 not Il correct
form. ms we shall now show. We
often hear the phrase, gone bnck on
mr,u vet how few recognize 1t as n
| Hebrew idiom, the original form he
ing inBia sGbdchth0m, meaning ITO for
| snke.u but sentence OF TAR more
interest as having originated In u
zonlopical fact. Is this: He's getting
on his ear ~ In i.self considered, this
seems foolish, and n physical impossi-
bility, since no being can
do such thing-not even the
elephant or the ASS 1--WE disclnim all
! intention to he personal), which has
more Ear than any other animal
Therefore, taking the face meaning,
peoplc cry, "Slangp But geologists
tell us that among the lower animals
of the first ages was one that. when
angered, crawled upon his auricular
appendage, which was large enough
to admit it, and there gave vent 10 Its
anger The saying, then, ION his ear, F"
| il highly fguralive and strikinBly ele-
CANT Again. we tell two boys of pug
uncious proclivties to Ego for hinw
supaking iudiscrimiuately to either
| thnt il most likely to obey. This Is n
corrupiion of the old Latin word goph-
| eyuBl used in some Of the mystic rites
of The Furies. as we are told in mythul-
ogy. But, struck with the sound, some
| entcrprising ptlyilist changed the I'M
to him. and thus gave the word It's
resent meaning. Otner eminent men
| huve held that it comes from the noun
'gopber,n referring to the animal that
| burrows in the ground If that view
be true, the verb gopher would
mean, to go through; 10 tumble up; To
investigate, etc; all of which interpre
tatious suit the word IA now used. II
il a very irregular verb, the principal
parts being "knucking" Kicking"
"btiug''-some grammarians include
swearing but IL il only so used in
profane history. IL is of the second
cunluga ion, as you will readily per
ceive when the husband reminds his
second wife of his dear, de parted
Emma 1t has no passive voice, and
is found in the vindictive mood. The
most conspicuous vowel, from the first
appearance Ot the Wnfd tlIl now mas
been btt,ck-eye-not so apparent in the
spelling OF the word AS IN the result
of the action which it denotes. We
have been unable 10 find the expression
give us IA rest or anything like it in
the dawning of tongues, hut it seems
to he the lavorite expression, either in
action or word, of hired men and wo-
men.
What u pathetic glimpse Of the state
OF the laboring classes does it give!
Faint with toll and care, the ser ,ant
girl walks ten or Twelve mile to church
in order to rest her weary limbs, and
then retires. only to hear the diab"li-
cal errand-hoy, at 5 II. M, shout 'gt
up!' Is it u wonder that she turns
YEARLY over, and means give us Il
reSt?" When the weary husband of IL
large family-no, we mean the father
when the weary father of large
family, dismounting at last from the
hard, unfeelng dry goods box in front
of the grocery spends his last fifty
cents for "A bottle of good old rye, and.
returning home, finds his chiliren
crying for bread, IL il
surprising that lac curses the bloat-
ed bread-holder-, and fiercely demands