----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 7:28 PM Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Just a quick hi
Ralph, Are you an etymologists or are you "pulling" our leg? Dave "pulpiteer" Tierney Dave, Nah, Just a Trivia nut. But in tracing terms, one of the things that's fun is to trace the root words. One of the things I found a long time ago, and a thing we hardly ever think about as we use words,.. Is....We are indebted to the Old English and Old Germanic cultures for many words. Not only Nautical but Everyday.. Here's some trivia for you.. (Even a good dictionary will give this info) The letter "A" used before a word, is an Anglo-Saxon derivation used as a modifier that indicates "to, on, in, at....". etc .. example: (a)board, (a)stern, (a)beam, (a)lee.. It's fun to go through dictionary words that start with "A" to try to identify the source. It's amazing to see how many words that probably came from Nautical use. Best, Ralph ************************************** See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)
