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    COTTON

    Besides its usual sense as a noun for the plant used to make cloth, cotton is also a verb meaning to get along with, to like. You see it in phrases like take a cotton to. How did the word for the plant acquire this verb sense?

    The verb to cotton originally carried a meaning, now archaic, of to take on a nap, to acquire a smooth, glossy surface. From the 1488 entry in the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland:

    Elne of cotonyt quhit clath to lyne the saim hos.
    (An ell of cottoned white cloth to lie on the same horse.)

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    Honore, 8 Nisan 2010
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    SOCCER

    Soccer is an abbreviation for Association Football. The Football Association was formed in London in October 1863 when representatives of eleven clubs and schools met in an attempt to standardize the rules of the game. One of the rules prohibited the carrying of the ball, a rule that would lead to the Rugby-oriented clubs leaving the Association several months later. The name Association Football was coined to distinguish it from Rugby. From the 1873 Football Annual:

    To play with the feet is the main object of Association Football. Hands should not, and must not be used.

    Within a few decades the clipping of association began to appear. From a 21 February 1889 letter by Ernest C. Dowson:

    I absolutely decline to see socca’ matches.

    And from the Lock To Lock Times of 24 October 1891:

    A sterling player, and has the best interest of the “socker” game at heart.

    And the modern spelling appears in the November 1895 issue of 19th Century:

    When the boat-race, sports, and “soccer” are in most men’s minds.

    So while soccer is commonly used in North America as the name for the sport, the name did not originate on this side of the Atlantic.



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    APOLOGY

    The meaning of apology has evolved a good deal since its first appearance in the sixteenth century (the first use is in the title Apologie of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England, 1533). In this, Sir Thomas More was not regretting his actions: He was seeking to justify himself and to defend himself from accusations. (Gerçekten de "The Tudors" dizisinde çok çarpıcı açıklamaları vardı ve VIII. Henry ayağına kadar giderek onu vazgeçirmek için epey uğraştı.)

    This meaning comes directly from the Greek apologia, a derivative of a word meaning “to speak in one’s defence”, ultimately from the prefix apo-, “away; off” (which turns up at the start of lots of English words, such as apogee for the point in an orbit furthest from the orbited body, and in the Biblical Apocrypha, which means books “hidden away”) together with logos, “speech” (from which we get our word logic). From this Greek original, it entered English either through French or Latin.

    http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-apo1.htm
    Honore, 11 Haziran 2010
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