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TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE ONE Our recent journey into the name nitrogen turned up a lot of other chemical etymologies that got us looking at some other elements, and we must say that they range from the pedestrian to the bizarre. Take, for instance, the series of man-made elements with atomic weights from 113 to 118. Their names are ununtrium, ununquadium, ununpentium, ununhexium, ununseptium, ununoctium and are TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 26 It seems that words and their etymologies are in the news again. Last week, it was whether the use of grubstake proved a document to be aforgery. Now, David
Howard, aide to the mayor of Washington D.C., has lost his job over the use of the word niggardly in a conversation.. Niggardly, of course, means "miserly" or "stingy". BIOGRAPHY OF MELANIE Selected biographic details. Melanie Crowley is a native of Dallas, Texas. She mastered the Texan dialect at an early age but has been able to successfully overcome that trauma in her adult years. THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 38 From Dale:. I'm interested in learning about the origin of the words coward and cowardice.. A coward is one who turns tail and flees, or one who has his tail between his legs. The first recorded form of the word in English is cueard, found in a manuscript of about 1225.Thereafter the word took many forms, cuward, couheard, cowert, and, believe it or not, cow-heard and cow-herd (both from TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 24 Spotlight: We spotlight an etymological curiosity and provide an in-depth examination of the word(s) and the etymological theoriesassociated with it.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 77 This issue of Take Our Word For It made possible by. From Mike Hoffner: What is the etymology of the word stroke referring to the medical condition?. Stroke "cerebral hemorrhage" is short for the Stroke of God's hand.It referred originally to what is now known as an apoplectic seizure, and the phrase dates from the late 16th century: "An excellent Cinnamome water for the stroke of Gods hande TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 104 Here we see that our days of the week are derived from two distinct sources. One group is named after planets. Sunday, Monday and Saturday are translations of the Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), dies lunae ("day of the moon") and dies saturni ("day of Saturn"), names which were first used in the cult of Mithras. The remainder, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, are named after Anglo THE GOD WHO DRANK URINE The drug. Much of the Rig Veda (and all of the Sama Veda) is concerned with the ritual consumption of a psychoactive drug called soma.Despite its extensive hymns of praise to this drug (all of the 114 verses of the 9th chapter and several verses elsewhere), the Rigveda alludes to it only obliquely with much use of word-play and elaborate poetictropes.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE ONE Our recent journey into the name nitrogen turned up a lot of other chemical etymologies that got us looking at some other elements, and we must say that they range from the pedestrian to the bizarre. Take, for instance, the series of man-made elements with atomic weights from 113 to 118. Their names are ununtrium, ununquadium, ununpentium, ununhexium, ununseptium, ununoctium and are TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 26 It seems that words and their etymologies are in the news again. Last week, it was whether the use of grubstake proved a document to be aforgery. Now, David
Howard, aide to the mayor of Washington D.C., has lost his job over the use of the word niggardly in a conversation.. Niggardly, of course, means "miserly" or "stingy". BIOGRAPHY OF MELANIE Selected biographic details. Melanie Crowley is a native of Dallas, Texas. She mastered the Texan dialect at an early age but has been able to successfully overcome that trauma in her adult years. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 38 From Dale:. I'm interested in learning about the origin of the words coward and cowardice.. A coward is one who turns tail and flees, or one who has his tail between his legs. The first recorded form of the word in English is cueard, found in a manuscript of about 1225.Thereafter the word took many forms, cuward, couheard, cowert, and, believe it or not, cow-heard and cow-herd (both from TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 24 Spotlight: We spotlight an etymological curiosity and provide an in-depth examination of the word(s) and the etymological theoriesassociated with it.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 77 This issue of Take Our Word For It made possible by. From Mike Hoffner: What is the etymology of the word stroke referring to the medical condition?. Stroke "cerebral hemorrhage" is short for the Stroke of God's hand.It referred originally to what is now known as an apoplectic seizure, and the phrase dates from the late 16th century: "An excellent Cinnamome water for the stroke of Gods hande TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 104 Here we see that our days of the week are derived from two distinct sources. One group is named after planets. Sunday, Monday and Saturday are translations of the Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), dies lunae ("day of the moon") and dies saturni ("day of Saturn"), names which were first used in the cult of Mithras. The remainder, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, are named after Anglo LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE ONE Our recent journey into the name nitrogen turned up a lot of other chemical etymologies that got us looking at some other elements, and we must say that they range from the pedestrian to the bizarre. Take, for instance, the series of man-made elements with atomic weights from 113 to 118. Their names are ununtrium, ununquadium, ununpentium, ununhexium, ununseptium, ununoctium and are TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Mark: I was wondering if the origin of the word fruition is from fruit.On the online etymology dictionary it states that fruition was "first recorded 1885 by mistaken association with fruit", which seems to indicate no true relation.Yet both words apparently stem from the Latin frui meaning "enjoy". Please help clarify this. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 77 This issue of Take Our Word For It made possible by. From Mike Hoffner: What is the etymology of the word stroke referring to the medical condition?. Stroke "cerebral hemorrhage" is short for the Stroke of God's hand.It referred originally to what is now known as an apoplectic seizure, and the phrase dates from the late 16th century: "An excellent Cinnamome water for the stroke of Gods hande TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 14 Recently, while researching the origin of eighty-six (meaning "none" or "omit" as in "One hamburger, eighty-six the onions") I made a remarkable discovery. But first, lets talk about eighty-six.. Many of our readers will be aware of Cockney "rhyming slang". A few may also know of Australian rhyming slang, but how many have ever heard of American rhyming slang? TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 104 Here we see that our days of the week are derived from two distinct sources. One group is named after planets. Sunday, Monday and Saturday are translations of the Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), dies lunae ("day of the moon") and dies saturni ("day of Saturn"), names which were first used in the cult of Mithras. The remainder, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, are named after Anglo TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 65 This coming Saturday, the 25th of December, in case any of our readers were unaware, is Christmas. In northern England it was also known as Kesmas, Cursmas, and Cursmis.Originally Cristes mæsse in Old English, it means simply the mass, or festival, of Christ.It is supposed to commemorate the birth of Christ but, as his actual birthday is unknown, the Council of Nicea (320-323 A.D.) assigned TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE As last week and part of this week were holidays (U.S.), this week's Words to the Wise column is shorter than usual.: From Angus McPherr: My father and I would like to know the origins of the terms haw and gee.Dad used these terms as a young man on THE GOD WHO DRANK URINE The drug. Much of the Rig Veda (and all of the Sama Veda) is concerned with the ritual consumption of a psychoactive drug called soma.Despite its extensive hymns of praise to this drug (all of the 114 verses of the 9th chapter and several verses elsewhere), the Rigveda alludes to it only obliquely with much use of word-play and elaborate poetictropes.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE ONE Our recent journey into the name nitrogen turned up a lot of other chemical etymologies that got us looking at some other elements, and we must say that they range from the pedestrian to the bizarre. Take, for instance, the series of man-made elements with atomic weights from 113 to 118. Their names are ununtrium, ununquadium, ununpentium, ununhexium, ununseptium, ununoctium and are TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 26 It seems that words and their etymologies are in the news again. Last week, it was whether the use of grubstake proved a document to be aforgery. Now, David
Howard, aide to the mayor of Washington D.C., has lost his job over the use of the word niggardly in a conversation.. Niggardly, of course, means "miserly" or "stingy". BIOGRAPHY OF MELANIE Selected biographic details. Melanie Crowley is a native of Dallas, Texas. She mastered the Texan dialect at an early age but has been able to successfully overcome that trauma in her adult years. THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 38 From Dale:. I'm interested in learning about the origin of the words coward and cowardice.. A coward is one who turns tail and flees, or one who has his tail between his legs. The first recorded form of the word in English is cueard, found in a manuscript of about 1225.Thereafter the word took many forms, cuward, couheard, cowert, and, believe it or not, cow-heard and cow-herd (both from TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 24 Spotlight: We spotlight an etymological curiosity and provide an in-depth examination of the word(s) and the etymological theoriesassociated with it.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 77 This issue of Take Our Word For It made possible by. From Mike Hoffner: What is the etymology of the word stroke referring to the medical condition?. Stroke "cerebral hemorrhage" is short for the Stroke of God's hand.It referred originally to what is now known as an apoplectic seizure, and the phrase dates from the late 16th century: "An excellent Cinnamome water for the stroke of Gods hande TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 104 Here we see that our days of the week are derived from two distinct sources. One group is named after planets. Sunday, Monday and Saturday are translations of the Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), dies lunae ("day of the moon") and dies saturni ("day of Saturn"), names which were first used in the cult of Mithras. The remainder, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, are named after Anglo THE GOD WHO DRANK URINE The drug. Much of the Rig Veda (and all of the Sama Veda) is concerned with the ritual consumption of a psychoactive drug called soma.Despite its extensive hymns of praise to this drug (all of the 114 verses of the 9th chapter and several verses elsewhere), the Rigveda alludes to it only obliquely with much use of word-play and elaborate poetictropes.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE ONE Our recent journey into the name nitrogen turned up a lot of other chemical etymologies that got us looking at some other elements, and we must say that they range from the pedestrian to the bizarre. Take, for instance, the series of man-made elements with atomic weights from 113 to 118. Their names are ununtrium, ununquadium, ununpentium, ununhexium, ununseptium, ununoctium and are TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 26 It seems that words and their etymologies are in the news again. Last week, it was whether the use of grubstake proved a document to be aforgery. Now, David
Howard, aide to the mayor of Washington D.C., has lost his job over the use of the word niggardly in a conversation.. Niggardly, of course, means "miserly" or "stingy". BIOGRAPHY OF MELANIE Selected biographic details. Melanie Crowley is a native of Dallas, Texas. She mastered the Texan dialect at an early age but has been able to successfully overcome that trauma in her adult years. THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 38 From Dale:. I'm interested in learning about the origin of the words coward and cowardice.. A coward is one who turns tail and flees, or one who has his tail between his legs. The first recorded form of the word in English is cueard, found in a manuscript of about 1225.Thereafter the word took many forms, cuward, couheard, cowert, and, believe it or not, cow-heard and cow-herd (both from TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 24 Spotlight: We spotlight an etymological curiosity and provide an in-depth examination of the word(s) and the etymological theoriesassociated with it.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 77 This issue of Take Our Word For It made possible by. From Mike Hoffner: What is the etymology of the word stroke referring to the medical condition?. Stroke "cerebral hemorrhage" is short for the Stroke of God's hand.It referred originally to what is now known as an apoplectic seizure, and the phrase dates from the late 16th century: "An excellent Cinnamome water for the stroke of Gods hande TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 104 Here we see that our days of the week are derived from two distinct sources. One group is named after planets. Sunday, Monday and Saturday are translations of the Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), dies lunae ("day of the moon") and dies saturni ("day of Saturn"), names which were first used in the cult of Mithras. The remainder, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, are named after Anglo LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE ONE Our recent journey into the name nitrogen turned up a lot of other chemical etymologies that got us looking at some other elements, and we must say that they range from the pedestrian to the bizarre. Take, for instance, the series of man-made elements with atomic weights from 113 to 118. Their names are ununtrium, ununquadium, ununpentium, ununhexium, ununseptium, ununoctium and are TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Mark: I was wondering if the origin of the word fruition is from fruit.On the online etymology dictionary it states that fruition was "first recorded 1885 by mistaken association with fruit", which seems to indicate no true relation.Yet both words apparently stem from the Latin frui meaning "enjoy". Please help clarify this. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 77 This issue of Take Our Word For It made possible by. From Mike Hoffner: What is the etymology of the word stroke referring to the medical condition?. Stroke "cerebral hemorrhage" is short for the Stroke of God's hand.It referred originally to what is now known as an apoplectic seizure, and the phrase dates from the late 16th century: "An excellent Cinnamome water for the stroke of Gods hande TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 14 Recently, while researching the origin of eighty-six (meaning "none" or "omit" as in "One hamburger, eighty-six the onions") I made a remarkable discovery. But first, lets talk about eighty-six.. Many of our readers will be aware of Cockney "rhyming slang". A few may also know of Australian rhyming slang, but how many have ever heard of American rhyming slang? TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 104 Here we see that our days of the week are derived from two distinct sources. One group is named after planets. Sunday, Monday and Saturday are translations of the Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), dies lunae ("day of the moon") and dies saturni ("day of Saturn"), names which were first used in the cult of Mithras. The remainder, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, are named after Anglo TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 65 This coming Saturday, the 25th of December, in case any of our readers were unaware, is Christmas. In northern England it was also known as Kesmas, Cursmas, and Cursmis.Originally Cristes mæsse in Old English, it means simply the mass, or festival, of Christ.It is supposed to commemorate the birth of Christ but, as his actual birthday is unknown, the Council of Nicea (320-323 A.D.) assigned TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE As last week and part of this week were holidays (U.S.), this week's Words to the Wise column is shorter than usual.: From Angus McPherr: My father and I would like to know the origins of the terms haw and gee.Dad used these terms as a young man on LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
MECHANICS OF ETYMOLOGY; GREEK AND LATIN ROOTS; PHONEME SHIFTS The Teddy Bear is named after Teddy Roosevelt and the electrical volt after Alessandro Volta. Place names: Frankfurters after named after Frankfurt, Germany, and jeans after Genoa, Italy. Trade names: Kleenex, Band-aid, Jello, Xerox, Hoover. From the shortening or truncating of words. THE GOD WHO DRANK URINE The drug. Much of the Rig Veda (and all of the Sama Veda) is concerned with the ritual consumption of a psychoactive drug called soma.Despite its extensive hymns of praise to this drug (all of the 114 verses of the 9th chapter and several verses elsewhere), the Rigveda alludes to it only obliquely with much use of word-play and elaborate poetictropes.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 2 I expect we have all heard the phrase of that ilk. (Ooh, I just experienced "Martian word syndrome", that is, the inexplicable effect of looking at a word too long so that it begins to look very foreign, as foreign as a written Martian word would look if there were such a language as Martian. THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Avraham Roos: Just curious if you could verify for me if the origin of humdinger is the following:. Humdinger, Arnold, 1897-1932, American aviator, born in Philadelphia and educated at Andover and Yale, where he excelled in track and field events s well as academically, graduating maxima cum laude in 1921. His tragically early death during an attempt to land his single-seat Curtiss TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 67 A friend recently asked us about a word that he only partially recalled. It began with al- and was an archaic navigational term. "Aha!", we said, "That sounds as if it could be an Arabic word." TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Lindsie: I recently used the expression called on the carpet and the person to whom I said it looked bewildered. he had never heard it before. I assured him it was a common expression, but then I couldn't find it anywhere to prove my point. LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
MECHANICS OF ETYMOLOGY; GREEK AND LATIN ROOTS; PHONEME SHIFTS The Teddy Bear is named after Teddy Roosevelt and the electrical volt after Alessandro Volta. Place names: Frankfurters after named after Frankfurt, Germany, and jeans after Genoa, Italy. Trade names: Kleenex, Band-aid, Jello, Xerox, Hoover. From the shortening or truncating of words. THE GOD WHO DRANK URINE The drug. Much of the Rig Veda (and all of the Sama Veda) is concerned with the ritual consumption of a psychoactive drug called soma.Despite its extensive hymns of praise to this drug (all of the 114 verses of the 9th chapter and several verses elsewhere), the Rigveda alludes to it only obliquely with much use of word-play and elaborate poetictropes.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 2 I expect we have all heard the phrase of that ilk. (Ooh, I just experienced "Martian word syndrome", that is, the inexplicable effect of looking at a word too long so that it begins to look very foreign, as foreign as a written Martian word would look if there were such a language as Martian. THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Avraham Roos: Just curious if you could verify for me if the origin of humdinger is the following:. Humdinger, Arnold, 1897-1932, American aviator, born in Philadelphia and educated at Andover and Yale, where he excelled in track and field events s well as academically, graduating maxima cum laude in 1921. His tragically early death during an attempt to land his single-seat Curtiss TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 67 A friend recently asked us about a word that he only partially recalled. It began with al- and was an archaic navigational term. "Aha!", we said, "That sounds as if it could be an Arabic word." TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Lindsie: I recently used the expression called on the carpet and the person to whom I said it looked bewildered. he had never heard it before. I assured him it was a common expression, but then I couldn't find it anywhere to prove my point. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 2 I expect we have all heard the phrase of that ilk. (Ooh, I just experienced "Martian word syndrome", that is, the inexplicable effect of looking at a word too long so that it begins to look very foreign, as foreign as a written Martian word would look if there were such a language as Martian. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 70 Sure, we have all heard of a peacock, but did you know that there are peahens, as well?A cock, of course, is a rooster or male chicken, and a hen is a female chicken. Cock and hen are also applied to the names of other domestic birds to distinguish between sexes. In the case of the peacock, the name for the male of the species has come to refer, now, to males and females of the species. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 104 Here we see that our days of the week are derived from two distinct sources. One group is named after planets. Sunday, Monday and Saturday are translations of the Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), dies lunae ("day of the moon") and dies saturni ("day of Saturn"), names which were first used in the cult of Mithras. The remainder, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, are named after Anglo TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 37 From Martin McClellan:. I'm looking for the origin of the word kitty as it refers to a collection of monies.. This has nothing to do with the kitty which means cat.That word is merely a familiar form of kitten.This kind of kitty may have something to do with goats, however.. The word is thought to come from kidcote (or kidcot) which was the name of the local jail in various English towns. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From a Reader: Where does the term bitch "female dog" come from and how did it get applied to women?. The word originally referred to female animals, especially dogs. It dates from about 1000 in the Old English written record and was bicce.Beyond that, etymologists cannot really say very much with authority. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 16 Take, for example, the word chocolate . I have yet to see a dictionary entry for this word which differs substantially from this, found on the web at WWWebster.com: choc·o·late Pronunciation: 'chä-k (&-)l&t, 'cho- Function: noun Etymology: Spanish, from Nahuatl chocolAtl Date: 1604 1 : a beverage made by mixing chocolate withwater or milk 2
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Jonathan Barnes: What does Manhattan mean? What does hattan mean?. First, we should tell you that you shouldn't make any assumptions regarding the origin of a place-name. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 56 A few weeks ago we took a look at some woodwinds. We now turn to the origin of a few other instrument names. There are several instruments which derive their names from the Italian tromba meaning "trumpet". As is only fitting for the land of brass bands, this word is German inorigin.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Lindsie: I recently used the expression called on the carpet and the person to whom I said it looked bewildered. he had never heard it before. I assured him it was a common expression, but then I couldn't find it anywhere to prove my point. LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 26 It seems that words and their etymologies are in the news again. Last week, it was whether the use of grubstake proved a document to be aforgery. Now, David
Howard, aide to the mayor of Washington D.C., has lost his job over the use of the word niggardly in a conversation.. Niggardly, of course, means "miserly" or "stingy". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 38 From Dale:. I'm interested in learning about the origin of the words coward and cowardice.. A coward is one who turns tail and flees, or one who has his tail between his legs. The first recorded form of the word in English is cueard, found in a manuscript of about 1225.Thereafter the word took many forms, cuward, couheard, cowert, and, believe it or not, cow-heard and cow-herd (both from THE GOD WHO DRANK URINE The drug. Much of the Rig Veda (and all of the Sama Veda) is concerned with the ritual consumption of a psychoactive drug called soma.Despite its extensive hymns of praise to this drug (all of the 114 verses of the 9th chapter and several verses elsewhere), the Rigveda alludes to it only obliquely with much use of word-play and elaborate poetictropes.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 24 Spotlight: We spotlight an etymological curiosity and provide an in-depth examination of the word(s) and the etymological theoriesassociated with it.
THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 14 Recently, while researching the origin of eighty-six (meaning "none" or "omit" as in "One hamburger, eighty-six the onions") I made a remarkable discovery. But first, lets talk about eighty-six.. Many of our readers will be aware of Cockney "rhyming slang". A few may also know of Australian rhyming slang, but how many have ever heard of American rhyming slang? TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 77 This issue of Take Our Word For It made possible by. From Mike Hoffner: What is the etymology of the word stroke referring to the medical condition?. Stroke "cerebral hemorrhage" is short for the Stroke of God's hand.It referred originally to what is now known as an apoplectic seizure, and the phrase dates from the late 16th century: "An excellent Cinnamome water for the stroke of Gods hande LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 26 It seems that words and their etymologies are in the news again. Last week, it was whether the use of grubstake proved a document to be aforgery. Now, David
Howard, aide to the mayor of Washington D.C., has lost his job over the use of the word niggardly in a conversation.. Niggardly, of course, means "miserly" or "stingy". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 38 From Dale:. I'm interested in learning about the origin of the words coward and cowardice.. A coward is one who turns tail and flees, or one who has his tail between his legs. The first recorded form of the word in English is cueard, found in a manuscript of about 1225.Thereafter the word took many forms, cuward, couheard, cowert, and, believe it or not, cow-heard and cow-herd (both from THE GOD WHO DRANK URINE The drug. Much of the Rig Veda (and all of the Sama Veda) is concerned with the ritual consumption of a psychoactive drug called soma.Despite its extensive hymns of praise to this drug (all of the 114 verses of the 9th chapter and several verses elsewhere), the Rigveda alludes to it only obliquely with much use of word-play and elaborate poetictropes.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 24 Spotlight: We spotlight an etymological curiosity and provide an in-depth examination of the word(s) and the etymological theoriesassociated with it.
THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 14 Recently, while researching the origin of eighty-six (meaning "none" or "omit" as in "One hamburger, eighty-six the onions") I made a remarkable discovery. But first, lets talk about eighty-six.. Many of our readers will be aware of Cockney "rhyming slang". A few may also know of Australian rhyming slang, but how many have ever heard of American rhyming slang? TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 77 This issue of Take Our Word For It made possible by. From Mike Hoffner: What is the etymology of the word stroke referring to the medical condition?. Stroke "cerebral hemorrhage" is short for the Stroke of God's hand.It referred originally to what is now known as an apoplectic seizure, and the phrase dates from the late 16th century: "An excellent Cinnamome water for the stroke of Gods hande LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AT TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ABOUT THE SITE: How do I get an etymological query answered? Search our site to determine if your word has already been addressed. If you do not find your word, submit your query to us via the "Ask Us" link in the menu bar above. BACK ISSUES OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, ISSUE 151 TO LAST ISSUE Issues 176 to the penultimate issue . Click the items in the right side of each table from Issue 110 to present to read them. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE ONE Our recent journey into the name nitrogen turned up a lot of other chemical etymologies that got us looking at some other elements, and we must say that they range from the pedestrian to the bizarre. Take, for instance, the series of man-made elements with atomic weights from 113 to 118. Their names are ununtrium, ununquadium, ununpentium, ununhexium, ununseptium, ununoctium and are TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 104 Here we see that our days of the week are derived from two distinct sources. One group is named after planets. Sunday, Monday and Saturday are translations of the Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), dies lunae ("day of the moon") and dies saturni ("day of Saturn"), names which were first used in the cult of Mithras. The remainder, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, are named after Anglo TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 41 From the Ramseys:. How did silhouette come to have its current meaning?. Well, for such a relatively recent word there are a remarkable number of theories. As we all know, a silhouette is a portrait of (usually) a face, in profile, in which only the outline is rendered, which is then filled-in with black. While it is certain that this genre of portraiture takes its name from Étienne de BACK ISSUES OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, ISSUE 126 TO ISSUE 150 Issue 126 to 150. Click the items in the right side of each table from Issue 110 to present to read them. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Ruth Oswald: I would like to know the origin of jackdaw. When the word jack is attached to the name of an animal it either means "male" (as in jack-hare) or indicates a small size.The jackdaw (Corvus monedula) is certainly one of the smallest members of the crow family but, in this case, jack is one of many personal names which were given to several birds in the Middle Ages. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 47 An old term for the element mercury (Hg), quicksilver, comes from the fact that mercury flows, as though it were alive.In fact, "alive" is the original meaning of quick.The quick and the dead did not refer to gunslingers in the Old American West, but instead refers to "the living and the dead" as in the Bible, Acts 10:42. The current meaning of quick, "rapid", did not emerge until the 13th LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 26 It seems that words and their etymologies are in the news again. Last week, it was whether the use of grubstake proved a document to be aforgery. Now, David
Howard, aide to the mayor of Washington D.C., has lost his job over the use of the word niggardly in a conversation.. Niggardly, of course, means "miserly" or "stingy". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 38 From Dale:. I'm interested in learning about the origin of the words coward and cowardice.. A coward is one who turns tail and flees, or one who has his tail between his legs. The first recorded form of the word in English is cueard, found in a manuscript of about 1225.Thereafter the word took many forms, cuward, couheard, cowert, and, believe it or not, cow-heard and cow-herd (both from THE GOD WHO DRANK URINE The drug. Much of the Rig Veda (and all of the Sama Veda) is concerned with the ritual consumption of a psychoactive drug called soma.Despite its extensive hymns of praise to this drug (all of the 114 verses of the 9th chapter and several verses elsewhere), the Rigveda alludes to it only obliquely with much use of word-play and elaborate poetictropes.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 24 Spotlight: We spotlight an etymological curiosity and provide an in-depth examination of the word(s) and the etymological theoriesassociated with it.
THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 14 Recently, while researching the origin of eighty-six (meaning "none" or "omit" as in "One hamburger, eighty-six the onions") I made a remarkable discovery. But first, lets talk about eighty-six.. Many of our readers will be aware of Cockney "rhyming slang". A few may also know of Australian rhyming slang, but how many have ever heard of American rhyming slang? TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 77 This issue of Take Our Word For It made possible by. From Mike Hoffner: What is the etymology of the word stroke referring to the medical condition?. Stroke "cerebral hemorrhage" is short for the Stroke of God's hand.It referred originally to what is now known as an apoplectic seizure, and the phrase dates from the late 16th century: "An excellent Cinnamome water for the stroke of Gods hande LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 26 It seems that words and their etymologies are in the news again. Last week, it was whether the use of grubstake proved a document to be aforgery. Now, David
Howard, aide to the mayor of Washington D.C., has lost his job over the use of the word niggardly in a conversation.. Niggardly, of course, means "miserly" or "stingy". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 38 From Dale:. I'm interested in learning about the origin of the words coward and cowardice.. A coward is one who turns tail and flees, or one who has his tail between his legs. The first recorded form of the word in English is cueard, found in a manuscript of about 1225.Thereafter the word took many forms, cuward, couheard, cowert, and, believe it or not, cow-heard and cow-herd (both from THE GOD WHO DRANK URINE The drug. Much of the Rig Veda (and all of the Sama Veda) is concerned with the ritual consumption of a psychoactive drug called soma.Despite its extensive hymns of praise to this drug (all of the 114 verses of the 9th chapter and several verses elsewhere), the Rigveda alludes to it only obliquely with much use of word-play and elaborate poetictropes.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 24 Spotlight: We spotlight an etymological curiosity and provide an in-depth examination of the word(s) and the etymological theoriesassociated with it.
THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 14 Recently, while researching the origin of eighty-six (meaning "none" or "omit" as in "One hamburger, eighty-six the onions") I made a remarkable discovery. But first, lets talk about eighty-six.. Many of our readers will be aware of Cockney "rhyming slang". A few may also know of Australian rhyming slang, but how many have ever heard of American rhyming slang? TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 77 This issue of Take Our Word For It made possible by. From Mike Hoffner: What is the etymology of the word stroke referring to the medical condition?. Stroke "cerebral hemorrhage" is short for the Stroke of God's hand.It referred originally to what is now known as an apoplectic seizure, and the phrase dates from the late 16th century: "An excellent Cinnamome water for the stroke of Gods hande LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AT TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ABOUT THE SITE: How do I get an etymological query answered? Search our site to determine if your word has already been addressed. If you do not find your word, submit your query to us via the "Ask Us" link in the menu bar above. BACK ISSUES OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, ISSUE 151 TO LAST ISSUE Issues 176 to the penultimate issue . Click the items in the right side of each table from Issue 110 to present to read them. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE ONE Our recent journey into the name nitrogen turned up a lot of other chemical etymologies that got us looking at some other elements, and we must say that they range from the pedestrian to the bizarre. Take, for instance, the series of man-made elements with atomic weights from 113 to 118. Their names are ununtrium, ununquadium, ununpentium, ununhexium, ununseptium, ununoctium and are TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 104 Here we see that our days of the week are derived from two distinct sources. One group is named after planets. Sunday, Monday and Saturday are translations of the Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), dies lunae ("day of the moon") and dies saturni ("day of Saturn"), names which were first used in the cult of Mithras. The remainder, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, are named after Anglo TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 41 From the Ramseys:. How did silhouette come to have its current meaning?. Well, for such a relatively recent word there are a remarkable number of theories. As we all know, a silhouette is a portrait of (usually) a face, in profile, in which only the outline is rendered, which is then filled-in with black. While it is certain that this genre of portraiture takes its name from Étienne de BACK ISSUES OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, ISSUE 126 TO ISSUE 150 Issue 126 to 150. Click the items in the right side of each table from Issue 110 to present to read them. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Ruth Oswald: I would like to know the origin of jackdaw. When the word jack is attached to the name of an animal it either means "male" (as in jack-hare) or indicates a small size.The jackdaw (Corvus monedula) is certainly one of the smallest members of the crow family but, in this case, jack is one of many personal names which were given to several birds in the Middle Ages. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 47 An old term for the element mercury (Hg), quicksilver, comes from the fact that mercury flows, as though it were alive.In fact, "alive" is the original meaning of quick.The quick and the dead did not refer to gunslingers in the Old American West, but instead refers to "the living and the dead" as in the Bible, Acts 10:42. The current meaning of quick, "rapid", did not emerge until the 13th LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 26 It seems that words and their etymologies are in the news again. Last week, it was whether the use of grubstake proved a document to be aforgery. Now, David
Howard, aide to the mayor of Washington D.C., has lost his job over the use of the word niggardly in a conversation.. Niggardly, of course, means "miserly" or "stingy". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 38 From Dale:. I'm interested in learning about the origin of the words coward and cowardice.. A coward is one who turns tail and flees, or one who has his tail between his legs. The first recorded form of the word in English is cueard, found in a manuscript of about 1225.Thereafter the word took many forms, cuward, couheard, cowert, and, believe it or not, cow-heard and cow-herd (both from THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. THE GOD WHO DRANK URINE The drug. Much of the Rig Veda (and all of the Sama Veda) is concerned with the ritual consumption of a psychoactive drug called soma.Despite its extensive hymns of praise to this drug (all of the 114 verses of the 9th chapter and several verses elsewhere), the Rigveda alludes to it only obliquely with much use of word-play and elaborate poetictropes.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 24 Spotlight: We spotlight an etymological curiosity and provide an in-depth examination of the word(s) and the etymological theoriesassociated with it.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 14 Recently, while researching the origin of eighty-six (meaning "none" or "omit" as in "One hamburger, eighty-six the onions") I made a remarkable discovery. But first, lets talk about eighty-six.. Many of our readers will be aware of Cockney "rhyming slang". A few may also know of Australian rhyming slang, but how many have ever heard of American rhyming slang? TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 77 This issue of Take Our Word For It made possible by. From Mike Hoffner: What is the etymology of the word stroke referring to the medical condition?. Stroke "cerebral hemorrhage" is short for the Stroke of God's hand.It referred originally to what is now known as an apoplectic seizure, and the phrase dates from the late 16th century: "An excellent Cinnamome water for the stroke of Gods hande LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 26 It seems that words and their etymologies are in the news again. Last week, it was whether the use of grubstake proved a document to be aforgery. Now, David
Howard, aide to the mayor of Washington D.C., has lost his job over the use of the word niggardly in a conversation.. Niggardly, of course, means "miserly" or "stingy". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 38 From Dale:. I'm interested in learning about the origin of the words coward and cowardice.. A coward is one who turns tail and flees, or one who has his tail between his legs. The first recorded form of the word in English is cueard, found in a manuscript of about 1225.Thereafter the word took many forms, cuward, couheard, cowert, and, believe it or not, cow-heard and cow-herd (both from THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. THE GOD WHO DRANK URINE The drug. Much of the Rig Veda (and all of the Sama Veda) is concerned with the ritual consumption of a psychoactive drug called soma.Despite its extensive hymns of praise to this drug (all of the 114 verses of the 9th chapter and several verses elsewhere), the Rigveda alludes to it only obliquely with much use of word-play and elaborate poetictropes.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 24 Spotlight: We spotlight an etymological curiosity and provide an in-depth examination of the word(s) and the etymological theoriesassociated with it.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 14 Recently, while researching the origin of eighty-six (meaning "none" or "omit" as in "One hamburger, eighty-six the onions") I made a remarkable discovery. But first, lets talk about eighty-six.. Many of our readers will be aware of Cockney "rhyming slang". A few may also know of Australian rhyming slang, but how many have ever heard of American rhyming slang? TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 77 This issue of Take Our Word For It made possible by. From Mike Hoffner: What is the etymology of the word stroke referring to the medical condition?. Stroke "cerebral hemorrhage" is short for the Stroke of God's hand.It referred originally to what is now known as an apoplectic seizure, and the phrase dates from the late 16th century: "An excellent Cinnamome water for the stroke of Gods hande LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AT TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ABOUT THE SITE: How do I get an etymological query answered? Search our site to determine if your word has already been addressed. If you do not find your word, submit your query to us via the "Ask Us" link in the menu bar above. BACK ISSUES OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, ISSUE 151 TO LAST ISSUE Issues 176 to the penultimate issue . Click the items in the right side of each table from Issue 110 to present to read them. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE ONE Our recent journey into the name nitrogen turned up a lot of other chemical etymologies that got us looking at some other elements, and we must say that they range from the pedestrian to the bizarre. Take, for instance, the series of man-made elements with atomic weights from 113 to 118. Their names are ununtrium, ununquadium, ununpentium, ununhexium, ununseptium, ununoctium and are TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 104 Here we see that our days of the week are derived from two distinct sources. One group is named after planets. Sunday, Monday and Saturday are translations of the Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), dies lunae ("day of the moon") and dies saturni ("day of Saturn"), names which were first used in the cult of Mithras. The remainder, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, are named after Anglo TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 41 From the Ramseys:. How did silhouette come to have its current meaning?. Well, for such a relatively recent word there are a remarkable number of theories. As we all know, a silhouette is a portrait of (usually) a face, in profile, in which only the outline is rendered, which is then filled-in with black. While it is certain that this genre of portraiture takes its name from Étienne de BACK ISSUES OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, ISSUE 126 TO ISSUE 150 Issue 126 to 150. Click the items in the right side of each table from Issue 110 to present to read them. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Ruth Oswald: I would like to know the origin of jackdaw. When the word jack is attached to the name of an animal it either means "male" (as in jack-hare) or indicates a small size.The jackdaw (Corvus monedula) is certainly one of the smallest members of the crow family but, in this case, jack is one of many personal names which were given to several birds in the Middle Ages. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 47 An old term for the element mercury (Hg), quicksilver, comes from the fact that mercury flows, as though it were alive.In fact, "alive" is the original meaning of quick.The quick and the dead did not refer to gunslingers in the Old American West, but instead refers to "the living and the dead" as in the Bible, Acts 10:42. The current meaning of quick, "rapid", did not emerge until the 13thSEARCH THE SITE
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LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AT TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ABOUT THE SITE: How do I get an etymological query answered? Search our site to determine if your word has already been addressed. If you do not find your word, submit your query to us via the "Ask Us" link in the menu bar above. THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Avraham Roos: Just curious if you could verify for me if the origin of humdinger is the following:. Humdinger, Arnold, 1897-1932, American aviator, born in Philadelphia and educated at Andover and Yale, where he excelled in track and field events s well as academically, graduating maxima cum laude in 1921. His tragically early death during an attempt to land his single-seat Curtiss TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 24DEROGATORY TERMS FOR MENDEROGATORY TERMS FOR WOMENDEROGATORY TERM FOR REPUBLICANDEROGATORY TERMS FOR BLACKPERSON
Spotlight: We spotlight an etymological curiosity and provide an in-depth examination of the word(s) and the etymological theoriesassociated with it.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 35 From David LoTempio: I am a grant writer for not-for-profit agency, and I run into a lot of jargon. Recently, I was fortunate to work with a peer from another agency that focused on providing services to the Hispanic population living in my city. While putting together a draft proposal, we both noticed that our sources of information couldn't agree on whether to use Hispanic or Latino to TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 74 From R. C. Trumbore: R. Callon uses the word aglutenate in the following sentence: "It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea." I cannot find the word aglutenate in any dictionary. Is Mr. Callon being particularly creative? If you consider misspelling to be creative, then yes, he is.SEARCH THE SITE
Search hints: If you are searching for a phrase, enter it in its entirety first, surrounded by quotes, but if you have no luck with that try entering one or two words from the phrase; for example, if you're looking for dressed to the nines, try entering nines alone.; The search engine we employ uses the boolean search method, just likeYahoo! and others.
LINKS OF INTEREST TO READERS OF TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Alphabets and Writing Systems: Here find out about the relationship between various alphabets, syllabaries, etc. Not strictly an "Englishlanguage site", but
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AT TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ABOUT THE SITE: How do I get an etymological query answered? Search our site to determine if your word has already been addressed. If you do not find your word, submit your query to us via the "Ask Us" link in the menu bar above. THE ETYMOLOGY OF SEXUAL SLANG The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny "sexually excited, lecherous" derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.James Joyce even used the term in his Ulysses.From there, any man having the horn was called horny, and this is first recorded in 1889. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 45 From Stephen Day: Are you able to offer an explanation of the phrase all agog (meaning "in excited anticipation")? My dictionary (Chambers) only says "origin obscure". I'm all agog to know the answer.. Agog is thought to come from the French phrase en gogue "having a good time". English borrowed it as agog because that's what en gogue sounded liketo English ears.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE TWO, WORDS TO THE WISE From Avraham Roos: Just curious if you could verify for me if the origin of humdinger is the following:. Humdinger, Arnold, 1897-1932, American aviator, born in Philadelphia and educated at Andover and Yale, where he excelled in track and field events s well as academically, graduating maxima cum laude in 1921. His tragically early death during an attempt to land his single-seat Curtiss TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 24DEROGATORY TERMS FOR MENDEROGATORY TERMS FOR WOMENDEROGATORY TERM FOR REPUBLICANDEROGATORY TERMS FOR BLACKPERSON
Spotlight: We spotlight an etymological curiosity and provide an in-depth examination of the word(s) and the etymological theoriesassociated with it.
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 35 From David LoTempio: I am a grant writer for not-for-profit agency, and I run into a lot of jargon. Recently, I was fortunate to work with a peer from another agency that focused on providing services to the Hispanic population living in my city. While putting together a draft proposal, we both noticed that our sources of information couldn't agree on whether to use Hispanic or Latino to TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 74 From R. C. Trumbore: R. Callon uses the word aglutenate in the following sentence: "It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea." I cannot find the word aglutenate in any dictionary. Is Mr. Callon being particularly creative? If you consider misspelling to be creative, then yes, he is.SEARCH THE SITE
Search hints: If you are searching for a phrase, enter it in its entirety first, surrounded by quotes, but if you have no luck with that try entering one or two words from the phrase; for example, if you're looking for dressed to the nines, try entering nines alone.; The search engine we employ uses the boolean search method, just likeYahoo! and others.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AT TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ABOUT THE SITE: How do I get an etymological query answered? Search our site to determine if your word has already been addressed. If you do not find your word, submit your query to us via the "Ask Us" link in the menu bar above. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 10 From Adam Turk: What is the origin of the word delta?. The advent of the printing press caused people to examine the shape and proportion of letters and Champ Fleury, the first book on typeface design (1529), contains an incredible wealth of information, often fascinating and usually irrelevant.In his discussion of the origin of our letter d, the author, Geofroy Tory, declares that the Greek TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 26 It seems that words and their etymologies are in the news again. Last week, it was whether the use of grubstake proved a document to be aforgery. Now, David
Howard, aide to the mayor of Washington D.C., has lost his job over the use of the word niggardly in a conversation.. Niggardly, of course, means "miserly" or "stingy". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 50 Many are skeptical about this explanation, though it is first described as early as 1836. The word did appear in the late 18th century, and it meant "odd person" or, in verb form, "make fun of". It evolved to mean "peer at questioningly", and that meaning may be the source of today's meaning of "interrogate". TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 49 From Teacia Babb : I am curious about what the phrase beyond the pale means and how it originated.. A pale is a wooden stake or a fence made from such wooden stakes. The word comes from Latin palus "stake" by way of French pal.The fence meaning dates from the early 14th century. By the turn of the 15th century we find pale being used in a figurative sense, such as to break or leap the pale TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 104 Here we see that our days of the week are derived from two distinct sources. One group is named after planets. Sunday, Monday and Saturday are translations of the Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), dies lunae ("day of the moon") and dies saturni ("day of Saturn"), names which were first used in the cult of Mithras. The remainder, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, are named after Anglo THE ETYMOLOGY OF SOME OBSCENITIES The Etymology of Some Obscenities. Damn, perhaps suprisingly to some readers, entered English in the 13th century.It derives by way of Old French damner from Latin damnare.The Latin verb's predecessor was the noun damnum, which originally had the meaning "loss" or "harm", and such meanings are reflected in the English relative damage. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT ISSUE 74 From R. C. Trumbore: R. Callon uses the word aglutenate in the following sentence: "It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea." I cannot find the word aglutenate in any dictionary. Is Mr. Callon being particularly creative? If you consider misspelling to be creative, then yes, he is. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, PAGE ONE No, we're not talking about names given to dogs and cats. We are talking of the kind of pet names we give to children or other lovedones.
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