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ittle well commonplace by comparison the countryside around hackney was apparently ideal for raising horses see the remnant of the landscape above and it seems that the town of hackney developed a nice little trade hiring out of these beasts the to hire aspect began that kind of drift that language is wont to do so that the word expanded its meaning to include other beings who could be hired like servants and prostitutes i think we can all see that any of these hired out beings might become tired out and overused which i m guessing is the real link to our modern term hackneyed hackney carriage gibraltar museum with this mystery perhaps solved let s move on for the word hackney also kept its associations with horses according to wikipedia the first private coaches were used by the aristocracy in the 1580s it didn t take long for the general public to emulate the upper classes and the first horse powered hackney cabs and carriages came along in the 1600s but even as horse drawn carriages began to be replaced by motorized cabs the term hackney stayed with them even though the horses didn t a modern hackney carriage the excellent grammarphobia blog lays out the evolution of the subsequently shortened term hack quite succinctly as for the short form hack it evolved similarly here are the earliest oed dates for some of its senses horse for hire 1571 driver of a hackney carriage 1661 hireling 1699 trite writing 1710 trite or dull 1759 journalistic drudge 1798 ride a horse 1800 writer of unoriginal work 1927 perhaps inevitably these days the word hack leads us eventually to think of hacker and in an interesting piece at deepgram essayist morris gevirtz shows us how the term hack has had two meanings since its emergence in english one having to do with horses and one with the physical and often violent act of hacking he argues that in our contemporary sense of hacking the two meanings have been reunited again but let s not forget the horses for the hackney is also a recognized breed you can see their distinctive high stepping trot in the photo below they are often used in harness events read all about them in this wikipedia article a hackney in a driving competion well we ve come a long way from hackney and even hackney itself has come a long way from the quiet village where horses once roamed the fields outside it it was gradually swallowed up by london and here is an image of it in the present day hackney from the air thomas nugent but if you re feeling a little nostalgic for the old hackney here s a delightful rendition of if it wasn t for the ouses in between on youtube wait for it you ll find a mention of ackney marshes part way through posted by seana graham at 10 56 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday april 13 2023 slogan when i started this post i wasn t thinking of a word for a short and striking phrase used in advertising i was thinking of those words or sometimes phrases that suddenly burst on the scene and which everyone else seems to already understand and i always start off hopelessly behind on words like snowflake and woke and cancel culture and karen to name just a few from the current batch or probably the not so current batch since i know of them but having started out thinking these were slogans i thought i would pursue the term anyway and an agreeable journey it has proven to be since i visited scotland recently and delved a bit into my scottish roots i was pleased to learn that the word derives from gaelic originally the original term sluagh ghairm meaning battle cry in both irish and scottish highland clans is a combination of two scottish gaelic words sluagh which means army host or slew and gairm a cry which is related to the word garrulous according to the online etymology dictionary at first i didn t understand this because garrulous derives from latin but it turns out that they are linked even further back by the proto indo european root gar to call or cry an incident in the rebellion of 1745 david morier we may think of images from braveheart or the like when we think of a scottish battle cry but i have stumbled upon a quote from elias canetti s crowds and power masse und macht which reminds me that our tour guide graham often pointed out the mythological stories of scotland as being on at least an equal footing with the geographical or historical ones the celts of the scottish highlands have a special word for the host of the dead sluagh meaning spirit multitude the spirits fly about in great clouds like starlings up and down the face of the world and come back to the scenes of their earthly transgressions with their venomous unerring darts they kill cats and dogs sheep and cattle they fight battles in the air as men do on the earth they may be heard and seen on clear frosty nights advancing and retreating retreating and advancing against one another after a battle their crimson blood may be seen staining rocks and stones the word gairm means shout or cry and sluagh ghairm was the battle cry of the dead this word later became slogan the expression we use for the battlecries of our modern crowds derives from the highland hosts of the dead which brings us back to our present day usage s luagh ghairm entered into english as slogorne in the 1510s its metaphorical sense of distinctive word or phrase used by a political or other group is attested from 1704 says the online etymology dictionary when it was spelled slughon they mention a fully folk etymologized slughorn as another variant spelling folk etymology is when people make mistakes about the origin of a word because it coincidentally sounds like another word that it bears no relation to slogans were not just war cries however they are also used on scottish family crests as either the motto or a kind of secondary motto they might be war cries but they don t have to be the graham family motto for instance is ne oublie do not forget this is not exactly a war cry but it s hardly a peace cry either it is this kind of family advertising that seems to be the transition point to our current understanding of slogan which means according to wikipedia a motto or memorable phrase in a political commercial religious or other context designed to persuade a targeted audience about something whether a cause a conviction or an object which brings me right back around to the beginning because it turns out that those single word i mentioned are slogans they re just in special subcategory called catchwords the oxford english dictionary a briefly popular or fashionable word or phrase used to encapsulate a particular concept motivation is a great catchword what i find all slogans have in common and what drew me to this topic in the first place whether catchwords or mottos virtuous or villainous is that they are designed to make you stop thinking critically and fall into line as a member of the target audience it doesn t hurt to eye a slogan with a certain amount of suspicion what is it not letting you think for the surprising origin of one of most famous advertising slogans ever click here no really just do it connie nielsen posted by seana graham at 10 57 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday october 9 2021 infrastructure photo by howard arlander so what is it exactly with congress in tension over two bills on infrastructure one being on the traditional kinds of infrastructure such as roads and bridges and progressives in the house pushing for a more expansive bill that would include things like working to abate climate change and poverty and expand things like medicare and childcare i m curious about where the word came from and what it meant in the beginning surprisingly to me anyway the word actually comes to us from french it was made of two latin components but was never actually used in ancient times it was coined by the french in 1875 and was first used in english not long after in 1887 infra means under or below in latin and structure comes from the latin structura which the online etymology dictionary tells us meant a fitting together adjustment a building mode of building fairly broad in other words the french according to merriam webster s site used it originally to mean what in english we already called substructure as in the foundation of a building road or railroad bed photo by niilo isotalo but the word took on new meaning and vitality after world war ii as nato came into existence and started building airfields railroads and military bases in response to the cold war the word migrated from french to english as these military groups worked together an interesting merriam webster article on this word talks about how war can lead to a parallel invasion of new words as well as happened during the 11th century norman conquest of britain which brought many latinate words from french into the english vocabulary so the word infrastructure entered the english language with many military associations which were not part of the original french coinage but as is the way with language it began to be applied to other spheres the merriam webster article says that infrastructure quickly had an added definition the system of public works of a country state or region which is not so much a departure from military usage as a sidestep to a larger governmental one avenue de l opera by camille pissarro haussmann s renovation of paris in the mid 1800s may not have been termed infrastructure by the french at the time but it was definitely a public works project but public works is itself a vast and sometimes abstract concept and now includes things that are not large physical building projects like bridge building and road making but communication systems and electrical systems and also the human beings who will be needed to organize and run all these things yes you could say that there is a bit of mission creep going on with this word but you could just as easily say that the definition of the word expanded as people came to understand the many facets of life to which it was applicable so it s no coincidence that the bigger bill that biden and many of the house democrats are pushing has come to include caregivers and teachers and healthcare it turns out that it takes an awful lot to keep a human system running hush naidoo jade photography posted by seana graham at 5 25 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog roll reluctant xtian on not giving a crap they re all so accomplished he said she shrugged good for them that doesn t bother you he asked turning his head they ve done so much and he 10 hours ago do you write under your own name what to do when someone dies aka without you itv x review a number of husband and wife duos have written crime fiction with some success but i d say that sean french and nicci gerard 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