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I love it when I find a new tool. This one you could read for centuries and never exhaust. I usually grab the unabridged dictionary - did so last night actually, but this is ooooh soooooo much more inclusive and precise. I encourge you to check it out. I will be living there in the future whenever I need an alternate for "fool" to be sure. ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY. A great reference tool. A great way to expand your knowledge of words and their possible origins.

 

~Lady A~

10-09-13 

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11 October 2013 - 5:19am — nightlight1220
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Don't you just love it! I

Don't you just love it! I always thought this one is really interesting because look at all the different meanings!touch (v.) Look up touch at Dictionary.com

late 13c., from Old French touchier "to touch, hit, knock" (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *toccare "to knock, strike" as a bell (cf. Spanish tocar, Italian toccare), perhaps of imitative origin. Meaning "to get or borrow money" first recorded 1760. Related: Touched; touching. 

Touch and go (adj.) is recorded from 1812, apparently from the name of a tag-like game, first recorded 1650s. Touch football is first attested 1933. Touch-me-not (1590s) translates Latin noli-me-tangere.touch (n.) Look up touch at Dictionary.comc.1300, from Old French touche "a touching," from touchier (seetouch (v.)). Meaning "slight attack" (of an illness, etc.) is recorded from 1660s. Sense of "skill or aptitude in some topic" is first recorded 1927. Soft touch "person easily manipulated" is recorded from 1940.

...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."

"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "

 

11 October 2013 - 5:03am — Beavis
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:-D

Thanks Lady A, from a fellow browser of dictionaries! 

10 October 2013 - 9:26am — bishu
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A Time O Logy Interesting for the Magic Figure 333 Respected Mm

Anytime O Logy Interesting for the Magic Figure 333 Respected Madam Allets.Someday I'll look up GuruGoogle.May I suggest "bufoon" the clown with the Popeye Mask. Human machines are indeed centuries old with all the ancient tools (modified of course)

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