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Books on: word origins

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Journal Articles on: word origins

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Magazine Articles on: word origins

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Newspaper Articles on: word origins

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    Word PLAY: Origins Are Right on the Money
    Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 26, 2004
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Word PLAY: Origins Are Right on the Money. Byline...for their labour, pay. The origin of this word is the Latin pax, ``peace...a weekly ``wage and this word might surprise some readers...Saxon term also gave us the words ``wedding (when two people...normally receive a salary. This word comes from the Latin salarium...
     
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    Origin OF THE Speeches; WHERE OUR WORDS COME FROM
    Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 23, 2007
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Origin OF THE Speeches; WHERE OUR...MUSCLE" is from the Latin word for "little mouse" and refers...contributed more than 2,000 words to our language, including...time. Anyone care for "fine words butter no parsnips"? EACH...first coined in the 1920s. THE word "panic", meaning uncontrollable fear, has its origins in Greek mythology. It comes...
     
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    Why the Cat's out of the Bag; the VERY Unlikely Origins of Everyday Words and Sayings
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 31, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the VERY Unlikely Origins of Everyday Words and Sayings. EVER wondered...the secret history of words answers all of these...to die for THE Latin word for sausage is botulus...the world, but its origins were rather more humble...Wiki is the Hawaiian word for fast, and because Hawaiians duplicate words for emphasis, wiki...
     
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    Why the Cat's out of the Bag; the VERY Unlikely Origins of Everyday Words and Sayings
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 31, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the VERY Unlikely Origins of Everyday Words and Sayings. EVER wondered...the secret history of words answers all of these...to die for THE Latin word for sausage is botulus...the world, but its origins were rather more humble...Wiki is the Hawaiian word for fast, and because Hawaiians duplicate words for emphasis, wiki...
     
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    Why the Cat's out of the Bag; the VERY Unlikely Origins of Everyday Words and Sayings
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 31, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the VERY Unlikely Origins of Everyday Words and Sayings. EVER wondered...the secret history of words answers all of these...to die for THE Latin word for sausage is botulus...the world, but its origins were rather more humble...Wiki is the Hawaiian word for fast, and because Hawaiians duplicate words for emphasis, wiki...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: word origins

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    Ciardi, John
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Dialogue With an Audience (1963), reprints of his pieces for The Saturday Review, with readers replies. His love of word origins led to two collections, A Browsers Dictionary (1980) and A Second Browsers Dictionary (1983). See study by V...
     
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    English Language
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the chief source for English words in science and technology...300 years the borrowing of words from foreign languages has...by the blending of existing words (e.g., smog from smoke...whereby a segment of an existing word is treated as an affix and...Pyles and J. Algeo, The Origins and Development of the English...
     
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    Feudalism
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Latin feodum, for "fief," and ultimately from a Germanic word meaning "cow," generalized to denote valuable movable property...the protection of the vassal. History of Feudalism in Europe Origins The feudal system first appears in definite form in the Frankish...
     
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    Bourgeoisie
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...middle class of France and subsequently of other nations. The word bourgeois has also long been used to imply an outlook associated...Moliere and have continued to be a subject of literary analysis. Origins and Rise The bourgeoisie as a historical phenomenon did not...
     
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    Chinese Music
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    CHINESE MUSIC the classical music forms of China. Origins and Characteristics Chinese music can be traced back as far...approximated the Pythagorean cycle of fifths. Legend ascribes their origin to birdsong, six from that of the male bird and six from...the fact that melodic inflection influences the meaning of a word. Likewise, quantitative rhythms are not easily adaptable...
     

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