Names Behind Words: Some Common Terms From Some Uncommon People
by In 1807 a four-volume Family Shakespeare was published in Bath, England. Family was part of the title because, as its anonymous editor explained, “those words and expressions are omitted that cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.” In Macbeth, for example, “Out, damn’d spot!” ad become “Out, crimson spot!” and in Romeo and Juliet, the heroine speech declaring her love for her suitor was reduced to less than half its original length.
www.amazing-planet.net/history-of-underwear.php
or: http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2009/09/23/bloomers_1.jpg
Bloomers
Amelia Jenks Bloomer, editor of an American magazine, the Lily, was a fervent supporter of dress reform for women. In an attempt to be free of the tightly laced corsets and voluminous dresses in vogue in the mid-19th century, Amelia Bloomer advocated wearing a jacket and knee-length skirt; beneath the skirt was a pair of trousers tucked into boots.
www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/19cdress/glossary.htm
or: http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2009/09/23/turkishtrousers_1.jpg
The outfit – which had in fact already been designed and worn by a contemporary dress reformer, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller – caused a storm of controversy. “Bloomer girls” were refused entry to churches and other public buildings, and the New York Herald went so far as to declare that “Those who have tried it will very likely soon end their career in the lunatic asylum, or perchance, in the state prison.”
It was not long, however, before “bloomer dress” became popular on both sides of the Atlantic, particularly as a practical outfit for the newly popular pastime of bicycling. And the term bloomers were soon applied to just the trousers or any sort of long undergarment.
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In 1807 a four-volume Family Shakespeare was published in Bath, England. Family was part of the title because, as its anonymous editor explained, “those words and expressions are omitted that cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.” In Macbeth, for example, “Out, damn’d spot!” ad become “Out, crimson spot!” and in Romeo and Juliet, the heroine speech declaring her love for her suitor was reduced to less than half its original length.
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Post CommentYovita Siswati
On September 23, 2009 at 9:26 am
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On September 23, 2009 at 9:35 am
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On September 23, 2009 at 10:26 am
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On September 23, 2009 at 11:43 am
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On September 23, 2009 at 11:48 am
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On September 23, 2009 at 12:30 pm
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On September 23, 2009 at 12:37 pm
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On September 23, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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On September 23, 2009 at 2:41 pm
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On September 23, 2009 at 3:03 pm
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Lostash
On September 23, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Great piece! More words explained.
Tanya Wallace
On September 23, 2009 at 4:00 pm
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Momof4
On September 23, 2009 at 5:40 pm
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Katien
On September 23, 2009 at 6:05 pm
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Christ
On September 23, 2009 at 7:49 pm
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CA Johnson
On September 23, 2009 at 8:04 pm
This was very interesting Mr. Ghaz. I never thought these words came from people’s names. I really learned something from your article.
Poetic Enigma
On September 23, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Indeed, very interesting article!
Thanks for sharing!
Jamie Myles
On September 24, 2009 at 12:02 am
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On September 24, 2009 at 12:34 pm
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On September 24, 2009 at 9:45 pm
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On September 26, 2009 at 5:30 pm
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Idazalee
On September 26, 2009 at 7:50 pm
A very strange, odd and wonderful article about common words…very interesting stories. I liked that. educatoinal piece as well. Keep it up Mr Ghaz. Thank you.
JohnDaOne
On September 27, 2009 at 6:46 am
Isnt 0 Celsius the freezing point and 100 the boiling point?
Mr Ghaz
On September 27, 2009 at 7:30 am
This is the history of the fahrenheit scale.
In 1742, Swedish Anders Celsius (1701 – 1744) created a “reversed” version of the modern Celsius temperature scale whereby zero represented the boiling point of water and one hundred represented the freezing point of water. In his paper Observations of two persistent degrees on a thermometer, he recounted his experiments showing that ice’s melting point was effectively unaffected by pressure. He also determined with remarkable precision how water’s boiling point varied as a function of atmospheric pressure. He proposed that zero on his temperature scale (water’s boiling point) would be calibrated at the mean barometric pressure at mean sea level. This pressure is known as one standard atmosphere. In 1954, Resolution 4 of the 10th CGPM (the General Conference on Weights and Measures) established internationally that one standard atmosphere was a pressure equivalent to 1,013,250 dynes per cm2 (101.325 kPa).
In 1744, coincident with the death of Anders Celsius, the famous Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707 – 1778) effectively reversed [3] Celsius’s scale upon receipt of his first thermometer featuring a scale where zero represented the melting point of ice and 100 represented water’s boiling point. His custom-made “linnaeus-thermometer,” for use in his greenhouses, was made by Daniel Ekström, Sweden’s leading maker of scientific instruments at the time and whose workshop was located in the basement of the Stockholm observatory. As often happened in this age before modern communications, numerous physicists, scientists, and instrument makers are credited with having independently developed this same scale;[4] among them were Pehr Elvius, the secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (which had an instrument workshop) and with whom Linnaeus had been corresponding; Christian of Lyons; Daniel Ekström, the instrument maker; and Mårten Strömer (1707 – 1770) who had studied astronomy under Anders Celsius.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080327125259AAwV1Ga
Webiny
On September 29, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Hey, these are really interesting, There’s a conversation starter for you. lol Great article, five stars. =)
CutestPrincess
On October 15, 2009 at 6:14 am
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