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Month: October 2016

What’s the Relationship Between “Ship” and “-ship”?

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Is there any connection between the nautical term ship and the prefix -ship? As it turns out, the word and the prefix may share an ancient ancestry. The word ship is descended from the Old English term scip (pronounced the same as ship), meaning “ship” or “boat.” Its origin is obscure but may stem from … Read more

“Species” and Its Descendants

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An assortment of diverse words stem from the Latin word species, which had two distinct meanings, one of which is “a particular kind, sort, or type”—the pertinent sense for the following terms. special: This word, coming into English from Old French, originally meant “better than ordinary” but later acquired the additional senses of “marked by … Read more