The Press., 1922-04-27
ORIGIN OF WORDS
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Most people take their words (and their phrases, tool ready made; that is. they learn a small vocabulary rom hearing other people talk, and a1ter- ward, finding the same words in DOCKS and dictionaries, they are emboloeneo to use them In their speech and WFlt- ing. If they ever wonder where these words. came from originally 1t is in vagne. listleas way, rather like the way they look upon mysterious as'r""- Omy.
 If one pins a comparatively small class down to their actual knOWledSe of the English language one can learn something more definite, but still neou- lous. This small educated class real lv has heard of the Angles and Danes who impfnged their language on the Pfcts 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 mSE- ing it a Latin-speaking island.
 Coming down to the year 1O66 the same cultivated persons explain by means Of the Conquest the large num- Der of French words that have been more or less Anglicized that we use every day. And when we ask why there are so many German words ID our tongue it is only necessary to re- call the fact of 8 common TeutohlC origin of the sailors and beachcombers who lived either in the fens or along the shores of Europe and England They spoke what may be called com mon language.
 After Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden Ben Ionson, Sam Johnson and other notable writers had introduced more Latin, Italian and French words mtC fhp language and invented few o1 their own English may be said to have been finished. Really avery language - including English, is extraordinarily conservative and resents new words All the same new words do get Into rhen. These words are sometimes re qured to describe new things in tho arts. sciences, etc.
 When Morse invented his code handy word had to be made and s( arose telegraph and variety Of deriV ativex. The airplane has given us lI turn several new words. Slang gives us novel word now and then.
 For instance, the word boycott" hat no trouble at all in finding It's way into our tongue and into most Euro pe0n languages. It arose from tho treatment of Capt. Boycott of LOugf Mask House in the County Mayo 1T 1880. Boston," a new word for new card game, got into the language earli CT. It comes from the siege of Oul city of Boston in 1775-76 and tho moves Of the game follow all the stra tegic moves in this military history.
 Pomp, meaning a solemn procession comes from the the Latin word pompe which was in turn derived from thu Latin verb pempein, which means t' send. Meddle, to mix, is distortion of the word middle, but 1t has as gOOC a place in the language now as tt fOr0bear.
 Who knows where the word habeE dashery comes from? Ask any maI who sells neckties, collars and Othe little things to adOrD (perhapS) tn person of man and he hasn't the leas idea. Look up the word in the stand ard dictionaries; the search will DO be rewarded.
 Quite otherwise is the origin of tn word humble pie. It comes from th eating by servants long years ago 0 pie made from the umbles, or entrails If the deer.
 There is considerable entertalnmen and not little knowledge to be gained by looking up the origin of words Why not add it to the list of pOpula indoor sports?-NOw York Herald.