{"id":59,"date":"2014-03-08T18:43:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T18:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79gifts.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2014-03-08T18:43:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T18:43:58","slug":"newsletter-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/newsletter-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Notes&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/world-cloud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77 alignleft\" alt=\"world cloud\" src=\"http:\/\/79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/world-cloud.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>As promised, notes on my newsletter. \u00a0I am fascinated by etymology (the history of words and how they have changed). \u00a0This week, as I was typing up my newsletter, I realized that I often have an odd turn of phrase (stop laughing!). \u00a0So I decided to look up some of those phrases and give a quick history of how they came to their current meanings.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Take to task \u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">T<\/span><\/span>o scold. \u00a0This term, dating from the mid-1700s, at first meant either assigning or challenging someone to a task. \u00a0I found references that its current meaning came about in the late 1800s.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">All the news that&#8217;s fit to print<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Originally coined by Adolph Ochs owner of the <em>New York<\/em> <em>Times<\/em>\u00a0to set the the paper apart from more sensational competitors. This slogan is still printed on each addition. \u00a0Many sources said that the slogan has been adapted to &#8220;All the News That&#8217;s fit to Click&#8221; but I was unable to find that anywhere on their online sites.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>There you are.<\/strong><\/span> The Cambridge Dictionary Online says that this is used when giving something to someone, usually after a request for the thing. \u00a0While you might have requested my newsletter, you probably didn&#8217;t request everything in it. \u00a0And yet the use of this phrase is exactly the way I would use it in speech.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Brave new world<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0From the dystopian novel <em>Brave New World<\/em> by Aldous Huxley, this phrase has come to mean either a future world or a current situation caused by something new. \u00a0A recent development.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Picking up steam<\/strong><\/span> Starting to be much more effective or successful. \u00a0I was completely unable to find a reliable source for when this phrase appeared in language.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Flash sale<\/span><\/strong> This is an internet phenomenon, originally started by the folks over at Woot.com and quickly picked up by other retailers. \u00a0As an ongoing business model, it is a bit iffy, but as a way to offer our regulars a great price on inventory we want to move, we think it will be a big winner.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>By the way<\/strong><\/span> This literally means &#8216;by the side of the road&#8217;. \u00a0It is used in <em>The Comedy of Errors<\/em>, (Act V, Scene i), with this meaning. \u00a0 Oxford English Dictionary cites Its figurative use of\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;as a side note&#8217;\u00a0as early as 1556. \u00a0 That said, there are also those who will argue that it is a religious reference \u00a0&#8211; the way as God, so literally &#8220;by God.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the process of researching all this, \u00a0I found several sites that I am sure I will now be visiting regularly &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> English Language &amp; Usage Stack Exchange<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Today I Found Out,<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> The Free Dictionary<\/a>. \u00a0All had fabulous articles and fun information (at least for a word junkie like me!)<\/p>\n<p>Smiles!<\/p>\n<p>Lise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, notes on my newsletter. \u00a0I am fascinated by etymology (the history of words and how they have changed). \u00a0This week, as I was typing up my newsletter, I realized that I often have an odd turn of phrase (stop laughing!). \u00a0So I decided to look up some of those phrases and give a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}