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The Latin word finis has two meanings: the end or the finish, and a goal to reach.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
London County Council, 1937 ‘ the word “lido” was popularly recognised as connoting an expense of sand with facilities for bathing and for basking in the sun’
The council was urged to use the term in all its documents “By doing so, the council will lend its influence in enriching the english language by a word which may, in time, seem as much at
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no fallacist suggests that we need to reorder the months of the year because the names for a bunch of them—September through December—don’t match up etymologically with their placement in the calendar. September (seven) is the ninth month of the year; October (eight), the tenth; November (nine), the eleventh; and December (ten), the twelfth.
Kory Stamper • Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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