http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/forums/9 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:34:14 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/forums/9 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4151/t/logists-and-logians.html SOED gives -logian as an older form with -logist as the only current formation, and dates astrologian as far back as Chaucer.
Astrologian/astrologist and geologian/geologist are examples where both forms are accepted by OED, even if -logian is largely obsolete.
Anybody know when the shift happened, and why? And why has theologian not shifted? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (frma) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4151 Mon, 28 Apr 2003 05:04:11 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4142/t/Agony-aunt.html
When was it first used? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4142 Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:59:50 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4141/t/Whiz-Kids.html
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Is there such a word as guglet? It's not in SOED. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ElizaD) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4145 Sun, 27 Apr 2003 10:36:58 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4143/t/hythe.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4143 Sat, 26 Apr 2003 21:36:24 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4135/t/re-Philologos-epiphany.html Forward detailing the search for a Yiddish counterpart to 'epiphany' apropos the Greek origin of the word here. I suspect if neither of them have seen it that both JGorman64 and WlmJames should especially find it of interest. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Taidhbhse) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4135 Sat, 26 Apr 2003 20:33:47 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4157/t/wrassling.html feeds@yuku.com (ccatanach) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4157 Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:06:30 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4156/t/Role-model.html feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4156 Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:47:46 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4152/t/Axe.html feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4152 Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:45:38 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4146/t/old-words.html
Can anybody say what the oldest English word in usage today is?

Can anybody say what the first known word in any language was?

Can anybody say what the first word of English was?

Can anybody say how the first primordial utterances came to be words?

I realize these are all "yes or no" questions, but maybe somebody can add some detail as well.

Thanks,
cpc ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ccatanach) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4146 Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:39:26 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4137/t/Penitentiary.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4137 Sat, 26 Apr 2003 07:17:03 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4147/t/Cold-cock.html He cold-cocked him, ie knocked him out cold.

How old is this, and any ideas about the derivation? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4147 Sat, 26 Apr 2003 04:39:52 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4144/t/-quot-punch-list-quot-.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4144 Sat, 26 Apr 2003 02:00:09 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4154/t/beget.html
My aunt begot a lovely boy last night.

Is it grammatically correct? Thank you in advance. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4154 Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:46:46 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4150/t/Chinatown.html feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4150 Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:19:47 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4158/t/papa-lapped-a-pap-lopped.html I was beginning to think there was no basis to the phrase/song title until... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4158 Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:16:10 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4155/t/hackneyed-phrases.html "At the end of the day" (probably derived from Les Miserables),
"That said",
"That being said".

Ig you watch the Fox News in the evenings in the states, it's darn near a 80% to 90% you are going to hear all three of these in every segment during prime-time.

If I had a nickle for everytime I've heard pundits and guests on news analysis programs use these in the past 6 months or so, I'd be in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ccatanach) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4155 Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:28:02 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4138/t/Hello-Nurse-.html
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Can anyone (OED maybe?) provide a cite of this early usage? 1941 seems a bit late for it to refer to a population surge following WWI. Was there a boom during the depression? All that unemployment, nothing else to do...? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jetty Jim) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4136 Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:48:14 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4160/t/Hair-of-the-dog.html feeds@yuku.com (BJ) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/4160 Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:43:52 GMT