Comments on: Funny Bones, 1913 (4) http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/07/02/funny-bones-1913-4/ Where our past is never very long ago Sun, 19 May 2013 11:06:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Carol http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/07/02/funny-bones-1913-4/comment-page-1/#comment-75407 Carol Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:19:53 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10068#comment-75407 Are you serious? I thought that “urban” was the older word and “sub-urban” was the new invention when people moved out of the cities. That’s what I get for not looking it up, I guess.

]]> By: David B http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/07/02/funny-bones-1913-4/comment-page-1/#comment-75354 David B Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:47:10 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10068#comment-75354 Well, you know, it’s not just my profession, it’s also a compulsion. :)

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/07/02/funny-bones-1913-4/comment-page-1/#comment-75352 Ardis E. Parshall Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:43:02 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10068#comment-75352 Ha! Even a silly post can teach me something! Thanks.

]]> By: David B http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/07/02/funny-bones-1913-4/comment-page-1/#comment-75349 David B Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:38:54 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10068#comment-75349 Unadulterated word-nerdism: Suburb was borrowed into English from Old French, and is first attested in English in 1382, meaning “outlying parts” (in the Bible, a Wycliffite translation of Ezekiel 45:2), with the first attestation as a collective plural unambiguously meaning “a residential area next to a city” appearing in a text dating from approximately 1387.

]]> By: Carol http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/07/02/funny-bones-1913-4/comment-page-1/#comment-75098 Carol Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:33:00 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10068#comment-75098 I’ve experienced the “last extremity”. Good one.

I’m surprised they had the word “suburbs” in 1913. I thought it was a modern word.

These are very interesting.

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