| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
Is there a note discussing words that derived from words that don't
currently mean what they used to mean when the derivation took
place?
(Alas, I obfuscate.)
For example... Barber comes from barb, from the Latin word for
beard. Now, barb is never (seldom?) used with this meaning.
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| 465.1 | mutatis mutandis | HEART::KNOWLES | Brevity is the soul of wi | Mon Jan 11 1988 13:32 | 6 |
I have a dim recollection of some lecturer saying that `glamour'
and `grammar' share the same root. This isn't something I'd feel
happy about defending; but if it's true, the current meaning
of glamour certainly has nothing to do with grammar.
b
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| 465.2 | glamour/grammer | YAZOO::B_REINKE | where the sidewalk ends | Mon Jan 11 1988 18:50 | 7 |
My American Heritage Dictionary indicates that glamour is a var
of grammer.
This proably relates to the old associations that both had with
magic. To cast a glamour over someone was to cast a spell and
grammery was a word for the study of magic.
Bonnie
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| 465.3 | Waxing ponderous, are we? | MARRHQ::MALLONEE | Reaching <ESC> velocity! | Mon Jan 11 1988 21:24 | 1 |