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| rtyhgn85 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4822 days ago 18 posts - 23 votes | Message 1 of 4 31 March 2011 at 11:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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Know some unknown history of words............................
MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened. BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody. FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks). DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped. NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S. AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business. QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest. TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom of Tips. JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5482 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes  Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 2 of 4 31 March 2011 at 11:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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Some of those are correct, but other are not. For example, queue, and tips have different
origins to those you posted. The online dictionary of etymology may be of interest to you. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6192 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 4 31 March 2011 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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How is the history unknown if you are able to list them right there in black and white?
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5824 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 4 of 4 31 March 2011 at 12:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
Wrong
Wrong. Several others seem highly dubious too. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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