Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-06
ROMANCE OF WORDS.

ROMANCE OF WORDS.
studies of words. All of these have been interesting
and iumnative to those who would know whence our
language of tongues has come The latest OF these
books admirable in its comprehensive brevty bears the
title ''The Romance Of Words.' The first edition APP
peared in March of this year, the second in June The
author is Professor Weekly of the modern language de-
The author notes that dictionary can keep up with
the growth of language and that the new English die
onary had done the letter before the cnematograph
arrived but got the word in under the letter K In our
language the word factories working overtime,
and in the United States dazed by the work of such
producers George Ade The best that the lexcograph
er can do is wait and whether these words make
good with the public AS late 1883 the word Appendix
cs considered too and obscure for insertion
dictionaries. The word sabotage IN process OF natural
zaon from the French, looks though it may stay. It'll
dervative of saboter to shirk work do inferior
work 1t from sabot wooden shoe To carry the
history of the word sabotage the very present. which
Professor Weekey does not do the Of the word was
developed in strike of workers in factory in
France where the operatives took off their wooden Shoes
sabots, during labor trouble and put them into
the machinery with the result that much valuable prop
ery destroyed The term thus used to describe the
violence that accompanies labor strikes.
The other day in the teegraphc columns of the News
it given out that of the candidates for the pres
dency 'heckled' by persons in the audience asking
questions The word heckle is first recorded in England
in it's political in $780, In Scotland however it
old in this sense that is example of dialect word
that has risen late in life In middle England it takes
hemp flax The word tease in its earlier meant
to pluck pull to pieces hence the word tease for the
thistle used by wool carders The author states that he
heard of weekend" till he paid visit to Lanca
shire in 1888 Now has invaded the whole island and is
current in the newspaper society columns in America
The slang IAN old geezer though quite modern in sound
hanks back to the middle ages where it has the French
forms guiser and guisard Mascot comes from
a Provencal word meaning sorcerer and dates from
Audrans operetta La Mascotte first produced in 1890
The word ngo first appears in conjurers argon Of tho
seventeenth century It has been conectured to repre-
sent the Basque word nko meaning God picked up by
Sailors and if this be the is probably the only pure
Basque word in English In 1873 when between Eng
land and Russia seemed imminent, London music hall
singer aroused great audiences with
We don't want to Tight but by lingo
We've got the =
So the name lingo came to be applied to that ultra
patriotic section Of the population which, in time at
tends to the shouting For jngoism have in French
Chauvinsm and Chauvn is the Of real Napoleonc
veteran introduced into Scrbes play "Le Soldat La
bourer." While America has adopted many English
words of modern coinage, Great Britain has in turn
adopted number from this country Among these is the
word caucus first applied in 1878 by Lord Beaconsfed
Professor Weekley says: In eighteenth century Ae-
it meeting discussion It is probably con-
nected with North American Indian (Algonquin) word
powwow, palaver confab the Algonquin for medi-
cine man. With these words may be mentioned Tanmany
now used OF corrupt political body but in the eighteenth
century, of society named after the patron saint Of
Pennsylvania. The original Tammany was an Indian
chief with whom William Penn negotiated for grants Of
land about the end of the seventeenth century =
It is also to- be noted that boss is in English COM
American words, belongs to the Dutch settlers who