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Total 12 documents found in 1-12 pages:

• Last word 2008-08-25
• ...ing to shots, let me take you to Bollywood gangsta films where a (usually illegal) pistol is a "ghoda" (or "horse"). I'm not sure of the etymology of this, but I'm sure they'll soon be calling it a "bindra". (In case you didn't know, he's the Indian who won the country's first in...
• The lowdown 2008-05-30
• The lowdown Updated: 2008-05-30 10:30 Etymology The term "wrestling" is an old English word that originated some time before 1100 AD. It is perhaps the oldest word still in use in the English language to describe hand-to-hand combat. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defin...
• Your say 2008-04-04
• ...ss a taxi driver. Learning that the proper way to address a taxi driver is "shi fu", meaning "skilled worker", Lee was curious as to the etymology of the word, a curiosity his teacher gladly explained. The phrase formed during a time when China was influenced by the ideas of Stal...
• The corrupting influence of money in sport 2007-09-27
• ...hionable to deride the sporting spirit, the Corinthian ethos, amateurism. That very word has acquired a pejorative flavor. In fact the etymology of "amateur" - "someone who does something for love" - isn't at all contemptible. If it's "for love or money", as the phrase goes, is love...
• New York city council bans "N-word" 2007-03-02
• ...y's education system had failed to teach children about historical background. "This is a word that is rooted in hatred," she said. The etymology of the word lies with the Latin "niger", Spanish "negro", and middle French "negre" meaning black. One of the earliest uses of the writ...
• New York City bans racial slur 2007-03-02
• ... said Ron Roecker, vice president of communication for the Recording Academy. The city resolution calling for the moratorium traces the etymology of the word from the Latin "niger," meaning black, to its first documented written use in 1786 as a term slave masters used to label t...
• Days of wine, roses and Shakespeare 2006-08-31
• ... doles out succulent bonbons of anecdote and significant fact from the vast larder of his knowledge. Among his asides are a fascinating etymology of the word "groundlings" as used contemptuously by Hamlet (they are fish who cling to the bottom of the river), the information that ...
• Remarketing Abu Ghraib as a college specializing in pain studies 2005-05-23
• ...ics and Case Studies, said: "From the nasty Neanderthals to our progressive and sophisticated present-day age, students will trace the etymology and evolution of every kind of pain. "We'll stage seminars in former dungeons where students will look at the history of pain from a re...
• No Sudan-1 dye link to the country 2005-03-12
• ...y, neither the FSA nor the Sudanese authorities seem to be entirely sure how the dyes got their name. One theory is simply based on the etymology of the country's name. According to the website "www.course.rochester.edu", "Sudan"'s name may have evolved from the Arabic word "Sudd", me...
• Gifted tinkers need workshops where they can invent 2004-11-08
• ...ce" was chosen as the key word in introducing this innovation smorgasbord. While engineering is about making things, science, with its etymology in the Latin word for "knowledge", is quite different, and one of the most misused words in journalism. As the report made clear, the g...
• Urban China's new wave of platonic cohabitation 2004-03-03
• ...e called "living in sin". Today, people looking to share their abode with someone of the opposite gender use the term according to its etymology i.e. "co" = "together" + "habitation" = "dwelling" : "shared dwelling", "period". Two practical reasons for such an arrangement are that it saves mon...

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