My discussion with Maite while waiting in line at Tater's...
1)Who is that person who invented the line "please fall in line"? Because come to think of it, how would one really associate the act of falling to actually forming a line? I mean, now, we all know what it means and what to do when we see that sign because its a frequently-used line. But before, when people were starting with the formation of the English language, how did they come up with such?
2) The word "breakfast."
What's the etymology of this? Why was it assigned as the first meal of the day? Deciphering further the word, its actually a combination of two words - break and fast. I don't automatically associate those words to omelet and garlic rice. And while we're at it, why do we pronounce break of breakfast as "brek." If taken separately, we pronounce that word as "breyk."
Hmmm... weird thoughts.
3 comments:
My hunch for the first is that it probably has military origins.
For the second, "breakfast" literally means the breaking of fasting, from your last meal the day before. Serious.
And that's how clouds are formed.
thanks mamu. but how do you explain the pronounciation of "break"?
Classiness.
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