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According to Greek legend, the nine Muses were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne and were each responsible for a different area of the arts and sciences. Some also consider the printout of such files as a slide deck. So this leads us to two conclusions. As Word Stories looked at Caxton and the effect that his printing press had on English last week, I continued in a similar vein this week, by visiting the Oxford University Press Museum. Right now, you can pre-order the 2020 edition of Funko's popular Harry Potter Advent calendar, and if you do it through Amazon, you'll even get it on sale for 33 percent off, bringing the price down from $60 to just $40. A startup that has secured funding to proceed to the next phase of their expansion is also said to have achieved their first milestone.

Meanwhile, in the hip hop music scene, the term "mixtape" carried a slightly different meaning. This might refer to a different version or arrangement of a song compared to the same tune on the official album, or tracks that were not included in that album at all.

A few weeks ago, Word Stories looked at the interesting case of the usual suspects and how the origin of the phrase can be pinpointed to a very precise origin: the film Casablanca. This root also became oinos in Greek and unus in Latin and from Latin came the Spanish uno and French un. It was used to explain several natural phenomena, including gravity and the motion of light. I normally don’t like to discuss personal topics on Word Stories, except of course when it’s a source of something linguistically interesting, but this news is momentous enough to warrant tweaking the rules just a bit: I’ve been invited to interview for the role of assistant editor with our fave dictionary. He was later freed when the truth came out but many continued to associate printing with devilry and regarded it with suspicion, hence a rather dubious step to the term printer’s devil. One possible contender for the infamous Larry is Larry Foley (1847 – 1917), an Aussie boxer who supposedly never lost a fight, retired at 32 and earned a very large sum of money for his last match, making him undoubtedly a happy chap. So back to English language tourism. Looking at this classic cartoon, the zzzzs say it all; Jerry’s not just relaxing or lying down, he’s asleep. It could have originally been a slang term for a thief’s accomplice or a colloquial university word for ‘roommate’, short for ‘chambermate’, but during the war it became a common word for ‘friend’. CC is commonly known to mean "Carbon Copy" whereas "BCC" is "Blind Carbon Copy". On the other hand, paparazzo, in the Abruzzi dialect, means ‘clam’ which perhaps alludes to the opening and closing of a camera lens. Then there’s the idea that blue can be used as an intensifier, as in blue blazes and blue funk. A milestone originally referred to small markers placed along the side of a road (typically a highway) to indicate the interval of a mile. However, it would still be acceptable to refer to them as "milestones". In the 1980s, mixtapes were mostly homemade by music fans using cassette tapes.

But the form devilling is altogether more interesting, because in the Scottish law system, devilling refers to the process trainees must go through to become barristers – the equivalent to the English pupillage system. Paparazzo as a surname is common in Italy, particularly Calabria, but there are a couple of theories about why Fellini chose it.

According to DARE, the word comes from Bube, a Bantu language of West Africa.

When we’re pushed to choose, it does seem that the ones that make it to the top of the list are the ones that roll off the tongue the most, such as mellifluous or ubiquitous. This raises the question of why it was zzz that won out.

The Oxford English Dictionary rightly calls this theory "ingenious but highly unlikely," and instead suggests that snob was probably originally a slang nickname for a shoemaker’s apprentice, then a general word for someone of poor background, and finally a nickname for a pretentious or snobbish social climber. Some use this characteristic of mixtapes to distinguish mixtapes from other kinds of music compilations where the compiler is relatively unknown or not revealed.

Secondly, as much as we like talking to each other, its always the second best; food comes first.

We’ll probably discover what happened on the same day I’m actually able to buy a house and get a mortgage. As & came at the end of the alphabet, the recitation would finish with ‘x, y, z and per se and’.

The meanings of many words have changed over time, and older senses of a word may grow uncommon or disappear entirely from everyday use. But it was originally only a Northern word that was usually spelt afere.

I was reading an article on a website about land-based engineering of all things (for work, mind, I don’t read that sort of thing for kicks) and in that article was the word bailiwick. There was once a time where rotary phones were the norm.

The term also refers to various machines and devices in agriculture, forestry, the oil industry, and logging. And here are my photos!

Horses would be harnessed to a central mill shaft and made to walk in circles to power grindstones and other such equipment.

Some quarters have also come to think of the "B" in "B side" as referring to "bonus", since music content that can be categorised as befitting of a B side is also known as "outtakes", "exclusive" or "unreleased" tracks. There are many words we still use today that were brought back from the trenches when the war was over. Movie trailers were said to have first emerged around the year 1913, with the first known movie trailer to be advertised in a theatre of a Broadway musical called The Pleasure Seekers.

So essentially, when you’re taking a few snapshots, you’re actually using a ‘room’. Incidentally, an article on Wikipedia also remarks that ‘Marc Drogin noted in his instructional manual Medieval Calligraphy: Its history and technique (1980) “for the past half-century every edition of The Oxford English Dictionary has listed an incorrect page reference for, of all things, a footnote on the earliest mention of Titivillus.”’. One film which gave English not just a catchphrase or an expression but a singular word is Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and that word is paparazzi. Unfortunately, internet-trawling and book-thumbing haven’t yielded any answers to why everyone else, it seems, uses a derivation of hypotheke while we’re still using the old mortgage version, why mortgage didn’t catch on anywhere else or why the French felt the need to exchange mortgage for hypothèque anyway.

After all, the French use rrroo or roon and the Germans use chrr, all of which seem much closer to the actual sound. However, some other sources have claimed that the word "blockbuster" was used because it signified extremely well received plays or movies that effectively "busted" other competing production houses and put them out of business. It’s a contraction of bum fodder and initially meant ‘toilet paper’ but it was soon applied to any communication from headquarters.

It’s clearer in some fonts than others; try typing & in Trebuchet MS and see what it looks like. The French avoided saying Dieu by using bleu as a minced oath, just as how sacré Dieu, ‘sacred God’, became sacré bleu. So a lord is actually a bread-guardian. If you pick up anything from spending unhealthy amounts of time on the road, it’s the little oddities and discrepancies between languages that, geographically-speaking, aren’t so far apart. It’s because Caxton’s staff were mostly from abroad and didn’t know English well; the Flemish and Middle Dutch gheest has a h so they figured the English word should too.

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