The daily Alaskan., 1922-09-05
ORIGIN OF WORDS
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Most people take their words tand their phrases. tool ready mndei that Is they learn small vocabulary from hearing other people talk, and after ward. finding the same words in books and dictionaries, they are embolGened to uge them In their speech and writ ing. If they ever wonder where these words came from originally It Is in a vague. listless way rather like the way they look upon mysterious astron- omy. ,,
 If one pins a comparatively small class down to their actual knowledge of the English language one can learn something more definite, but still nebu- lous This small educated class real. lv has heard of the Angles and Danes who lmpinged their language on the Plcts and thus started the Anglo-SaE- on boom. It will tell you also how Julius Caesar brought his cohorts Into Britain and almost succeeded In max ing tt a Laun-speakInE Island.
 Coming down to the year lOO6' the same cultivated persons explain by means Of the Conquest the large num- her 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 in our tongue lt Is only necessary to re- call the fact of a common Teutonic 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 a com mon language.
 After Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Ben Jons0n, sam Johnson and other notable writers had introduced more Latin. Italian and French words Into the language and invented a few of their own English may be said to have been finished. Really every language, including English is extraordinarily conservative and resents new words. All the same new words do get Into them. These words are sometimes re oulred 10 describe new things ID the arts. sciences. etc.
 When Morse invented hls code a handy word had to be made and so arose telegraph and a variety of deriv atives. The alrp!aue has given us in turn several new words. Slang gives us a novel word now and then.
 For Instance, the word boycott" had no trouble at all In finding Its way Into our tongue and Into most Euro pean languages. IL arose from the treatment of Capt. Boycott of Lough Mask House In the County Mayo in 1880 Boston" new word for a new card game. got Into the language earll- er. It comes from the siege of our city Of Boston in l775-IG and the moves of the game follow. all the strs- teglc moves in this military history.
 Pomp. meaning a solemn procession, comes from the the Latin word pOmpe, which was in turn derived from the Latin verb pempeIn, which means 10 send. Meddle, Co mix Is distortion of the word middle. but lt has as good a place in the language now as It's forebear.
 Who knows where the word haber. daShpry comes from? Ask any man who sells uecktIes. collars and other little things to adon (perhaps) the person of man and he hasn't the least idea. Look up the word in the stand ard dictionaries; the search will not be rewarded.
 Quite otherwise is the origin of the word humble pie. It comes from the eating by servants long years ago of pie made from the umbles, or entraIls, of the deer.
 There Is considerable entertainment and not a little knowledge to be gained by looking up the origin of words Why not add it to the list Of popular indoor sports?-New York Herald.