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It is as important to the last century as canvas and paintbrush was then. Paul lived longer than most good rock icons should, but unlike so many that do, his relevance has never been questioned. Instead, he got to do something so few great inventors have been able to do: watch how humanity embraced his invention and was bettered for it; which had to elicit a sense of satisfaction I can only dream about.
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Get the Answers App. All Rights Reserved. The material on this site can not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Answers. Where did this word come from? I am a receptionist, so answering the phones all day I say the word a lot. No "morning" on my website? Not true! According to Google, the word "morning" occurs a full sixty times on my site.
It's true that I have never exactly explained the word, but that's because I find the entire concept of "morning" so appalling that I've never been able to write about it. I think my aversion dates back to a job I had back in that required me to appear every day at am to sort and file indigent death benefit request forms in a dank, windowless basement room at the state Welfare Department. I challenge anyone to come up with a more depressing job.
I lasted less than two weeks and I haven't gotten up before noon ever since. OK, that last part isn't true, but "morning" is an interesting word.
Meaning originally "dawn" or "the beginning of the day" but eventually expanded in usage to include all the hours before noon, "morning" comes from the Old English word "morgen" still the word for "morning" in German, Dutch and Danish. The Old English word appears to be related to Indo-European roots meaning "to twinkle" or "to blink," probably carrying the sense of the first gleaming rays of dawn.
In Middle English, "morgen" became "morn," still a favorite of bad poets, which then begat "morning," the "ing" being added by analogy to "evening. Since we're on the subject, let's see what the old padding drawer has to offer.
The derivative form "dagian" meant "becoming day," and eventually produced "dagung," meaning "dawn. Elsewhere in the course of what is beginning to seem like a very long day, the meaning of "afternoon" is, as you say, obvious, but what, after all, is "noon"? A very strange word, it appears. Math mavens will immediately notice that by Roman logic that made "noon" roll around at 3 pm, and it did indeed until the 12th century, when both the midday meal and the religious services held at that time of day known then as "nones" were gradually shifted, for unknown reasons, to the sixth hour 12 pm , which became our modern "noon.
Dear Word Detective: I came upon your site when I was looking for the derivation of the term "smart aleck. Please comment! Well, there you go. I like to call this process "question-farming. Then I just sit back, browse the Adverb Futures Report, and pretty soon my mailbox fills up with a bountiful crop of new questions. Of course, I still have to sift out the annoying chaff asking about "the three words ending in gry" and the desperate pleas for homework help from lazy sixth-graders, but it beats using store-bought questions.
A "smart aleck" or "alec," both forms being shortened from "Alexander" is a know-it-all, a vociferously assertive person usually a man who professes to know the answer to any question and forces it upon his listeners with an air of superiority. Smart alecks are, consequently, usually unliked and frequently loathed.
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