The Arvada enterprise., 1922-03-23
ORIGIN OF WORDS
Entertainment and knowledge In
the Search.
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plantations Ars In the Nature
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tnelr PHRASES, tOOJ Ttduy th"uos '""e
10, they learn IL small vocabulary from
hearing other people talk. and after
ward, finding the same words In books
and dictionaries. they are emboldened
to use them In their speech and writ
ing. II they ever wonder where these
words came from originally 1t Ia In a
vague. listless way. rather like the
way they look upon mysterious astron-
omy.
II one pins comparatively small
class down to their actual knowledge
Of the English language one can learn
something more definite. hut still nebu-
lous. This small educated class real
ly has heard OF the Angles and Danes
who impingcd their Language on the
Picts and thus started the Anglo Sax
on boom. 1t will tell you also how
Julius Caesar brought his cohorts into
Britain and almost succeeded In max
Ing 1t a Latin. speaking island.
Coming down to the year 1905. tho
same cultivated persons explain by
means Of the Conquest the large num-
bsr Of French words that have been
more Of less Angiicised that We use
every day. And when We ask why
there are 20 many German words In
our tongue II 10 only necessary to re-
call the fact Of q common Teutonic
origin Of the sailors and bsachcombers
who lived either In the feus or along
the shores Of Europe and England.
They spoke what may b called COM
mon language.
After Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden.
bsn Jonson, Sam johnson and other
notable writer's had introduced more
Latin, Italian and French words into
the Language and invented . few Of
their own English may bs said to have
bsen finished. Really every language.
including English, 10 extraordinarily
conservative and resents new wOeds.
All the same new words do get Into
them. These words arc sometimes r.
quired to describe new thinss In u
arts. sciences. etc.
When M0rss invented his code .
handy word had to be made and 20
arose telegraph and variety Of dsriv'
atives. TIE airplans has given III 10
turn several new words. Slang gives
u q novel word now and then.
For instancs, tho word boycott" had
NO trouble At all In finding it, way
Into our tongue and Into most Euro
pean languages. 1t arOse from the
treatment Of Capt. Boycott Of Loagh
Mask House In tho County Mayo In
1880 Boston," . new word for now
card game. got into the language earll.
er. II comea from the stegs Of oul
city Of Boston In l775-76 aud the
moves Of the game follow oil tho stra'
tegic moves In this military history.
Pomp, meaning . solemn procession,
comes from the tho Latin word pompe,
which was In turn derived from the
Latin verb psmpein. which means to
send. Neddle. to mix. 10 y distortion
Of the word middle. but It has NJ good
q place In the language now ~ ita
forsbear.
Who knows where the word habes'
dashery comes fromf Ask any mnn
who sells neckties. collars and other
little things to adorn (psrhaps) the
person Of man and he hasn't the least
Idea. Look up the word In the stand
ard dictionaries: the search will MOI
be rewarded.
Quite Otherwise u the origin 0e ths
word humble pie. IT comes from the
eatisg by servants long yearx ago Oi
pie made from the umblcs. or entrsils
| Of the deer.
There Ia considerable entertainment
and not little knowledge to be gained
by looking up the origin Of words
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