by compound complex 182 Replies latest jw friends
I like the fact that the English language has vocabulary from Germanic, French & Latin. This has enriched our language, I think.
So, we can choose one or the other - sometimes they have different shades of meaning, or can be used as part of idioms, etc.
Begin (from Germanic)
Start (from ?)
Commence (from French)
... all mean the same thing but make English all the richer.
CoCo.
Correctly pronouncing the name of Nevada can be a shibboleth/sibboleth moment for some.
Consumption (medical)
According to Merriam-Webster start is from Middle English and Middle High German.
I remember an older Awake! (a magazine, anyway) that had an illustration of an ant holding up his hand to an oncoming locomotive, shouting "STOP!"
It was a French publication.
Don't know if this has been posted before but here goes:
Blew: To blow air.
Blue: The color.
To: Going to...
Too: Me too.
Two: The number.
@ VI
The T words were covered on page 5.
I have an addition to the B words - Bleu.
An ant stopping a train ...
Arretez?
"Correct me if i'm wrong but stopper is an anglicism. As such, it more or less means whatever to stop means in English." [emendations mine]
ex:
stopper une voiture : to stop a car
stopper à un carrefour : to stop at a crossroads
stopper un dangereux criminel : to stop a dangerous criminal
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/the-use-of-the-verb-stopper.244158/
You're not incorrect, Sylvia; however, I was nonplussed when reading my French copy of said magazine and the caption for the ant was "Stop!" The article had something to do with man's efforts to change the oncoming rush of the end of the system of things, or some such.
Must've been pre-'75.
Thanks!
I'm going to steal your steel!
Oh, yeah?
Then, I'll break your brake off your bike.
Spanish metal was no match for English mettle.
