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The origin of words or expressions
Do sometime are curious about the origin of a word you frequently use?...Like kudos..I thought it was Japanese, till I checked it..... How about OK/okay? Apr 28 13 08:51 am Link The term for that is: etymology http://www.etymonline.com/ http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48468 OK at Dictionary.com 1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c.1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, jocular misspellings (e.g. K.G. for "no go," as if spelled "know go;" N.C. for "'nuff ced;" K.Y. for "know yuse"). In the case of O.K., the abbreviation is of "oll korrect." ...... The noun is first attested 1841; the verb 1888. Okey-doke is student slang first attested 1932. The complete article: http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/more/436/ Apr 28 13 08:56 am Link Yeah. I got a book on the origins of common phrases. I read a page or two as I'm waking up in the morning. Apr 28 13 10:17 am Link I'm a huge fan of etymology, which is one of the reasons I learned some Latin, and taught my daughter as much as I could. But...I also have a foreign language base, so I can pull from old French and old German, too. Others, I look up if I'm curious. I've been reading the dictionary for entertainment and knowledge since I was about three. Apr 28 13 10:36 am Link Etymology is neat as hell. Anyone here know a good iPhone app for word origins? I'm sick of the dictionary.com app's half assed origin blurb (if you can call it that...) at the end of only certain words. Apr 28 13 10:42 am Link "udor" - Fearless warrior who rides into the sunset for more adventures... Apr 28 13 10:44 am Link Apr 28 13 10:46 am Link udor wrote: Etymology of "udor" Apr 28 13 10:49 am Link You might like the show America's Secret Slang on the History channel. Apr 28 13 11:45 am Link I love expressions. My favourite one is "snug as a bug in a rug" which is used to describe getting under warm sheets or quilts. Would love to know where that came from. Anyone? Apr 28 13 09:41 pm Link DivaEroticus wrote: I came to that quite late: around age 12. Apr 28 13 10:09 pm Link NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote: I had always assumed that UdoR's first name was Udo, since I knew that to be a not uncommon German name. Apr 28 13 10:17 pm Link Family legend: My father claims to have coined the word "Hippie". I don't know if it's true, but it is more than credible. Dad was a songwriter, and he used the word "hippie" in the lyrics in a couple of very popular songs from ~1961. Apr 29 13 08:25 am Link Vivus Hussein Denuo wrote: I started reading (and actually comprehending) VERY early, and had a larger vocabulary at that age than most have today. My daughter (now 21) was the same. She has teased me for years (by way of bragging to her friends) about my reading the dictionary "for fun." How anyone wouldn't want to know how words began is a mystery to me, as well. Comparative linguistics came easily to me having the background I do, but even without that, I'd still devour word origins. Apr 29 13 09:46 am Link Can someone help me out. Where does "snug as a bug in a rug" come from? Apr 29 13 07:40 pm Link udor wrote: I've often wondered about your name. I read your post about how you shortened it. Very cool. Apr 29 13 08:00 pm Link Tim Little Photography wrote: It's oo-doe are. Apr 29 13 08:03 pm Link Brian Diaz wrote: \ Apr 29 13 08:12 pm Link udor wrote: NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote: Damn'it!!!!!!!! Apr 29 13 08:57 pm Link Tim Little Photography wrote: Uh Door... Apr 29 13 08:59 pm Link udor wrote: Thanks Udor! Apr 29 13 09:03 pm Link AdelaideJohn1967 wrote: Here, lemme Google that fer ya... Apr 29 13 09:24 pm Link Caveman Creations wrote: And if you are a bumblebee, you might be studied by entomologists. Apr 29 13 10:00 pm Link Caveman Creations wrote: Oh thanks. That was interesting and had no idea the phrase was so old. Apr 30 13 05:59 pm Link Hmm Bonfire...according to a historian on Tudor Monastery Farm this dates back to Tudor farms n was originally Bonefires as bones of dead animals were disposed of by burning them. It then got shortened to bonfire.  Dec 23 13 04:54 am Link When I was little I was obsessed with words, especially their etymology. I would run home from school, practice piano for an hour (which I also adored), then just obsessively pour over the dictionary absorbing words, words, words. Dec 23 13 05:10 am Link Looknsee Photography wrote: The west has a different version of the term "hippie." Dec 23 13 06:46 am Link Leonard Gee Photography wrote: Reminds me of cockney rhyming slang, which it took a long while to convince my friend is a real thing and I wasn't just having him on. Dec 23 13 07:54 am Link DivaEroticus wrote: The combination of having taken German in high school and my obsessive need to analyze words and note any patterns caused me to become an amateur etymologist before I'd ever heard of etymology. In my teens, I discovered the following: English "follow," German "folgen"; English "[to]morrow," German "Morgen"; English "borrow," German "borgen," English "sorrow," German "sorgen." Dec 23 13 08:01 am Link "Gams" was originally a word to describe men's legs. In the middle ages, when guys wore those funny little breeches, attractive, shapely legs were a big deal for guys. A man blessed with good-looking legs had "gams." That is a word now typically used to address women's legs. Used to be for the fellows. Dec 23 13 11:03 am Link "Implied Nude" used to mean... actually, never mind.  Dec 23 13 11:06 am Link Artifice wrote: You have a data retrieval memory like a computer. Dec 23 13 11:18 am Link Koryn Locke wrote: Gams and Guns ... any connection? Dec 23 13 11:20 am Link Click Hamilton wrote: I'm not sure, but so far I haven't been able to figure out how to monetize it. Dec 23 13 11:23 am Link |
