51吃瓜 of the Day
More about atweel
Atweel is an alteration and contraction of Scots (I) wat weel, (I) wot well in standard if archaic English, meaning (I) know well in modern standard English. Unsurprisingly, atweel is found only in Scottish authors, the two most famous being Robert Burns (1759鈥�1796) and Sir Walter Scott (1771鈥�1832). Atweel entered English in the 18th century.
how is atweel used?
Atweel, I can do that, and help her to buy her parapharnauls.
Atweel, I dinna ken yet.
tautology
noun
needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in 鈥渨idow woman.鈥�
More about tautology
Tautology comes from Late Latin tautologia, a borrowing of a Hellenistic Greek rhetorical term 迟补耻迟辞濒辞驳铆补 鈥渞epetition of something already said.鈥� The second half of tautology is clear enough, being the same suffix as in theology or philology. The first element tauto- needs some clarification: it comes from t貌 aut贸 鈥渢he same,鈥� formed from the neuter singular of the definite article and the third person pronoun (the combination of t貌 aut贸 to 迟补耻迟贸 is called 办谤芒蝉颈蝉 鈥渕ixture,鈥� which appears in idiosyncrasy 鈥減ersonal temperament鈥濃�攁 鈥減ersonal blend鈥� as it were. Tautology entered English in the 16th century.
how is tautology used?
Take away perspective and you are stranded in a universal present, something akin, weirdly, to the unhistoried 鈥� and, at the risk of tautology, perspective-less 鈥� art of the Middle Ages.
… the central moral question is whether we are going to use the language of tautology and self-justification 鈥� one that gives us alone the right to be called reasonable and human 鈥� or whether we labour to discover other ways of speaking and imagining.
More about sweeting
Sweeting is an obvious noun formed from the adjective sweet and the noun suffix -ing 鈥渙ne belonging to, descended from.鈥� The sense 鈥渟weetheart,鈥� not used nowadays, dates from about 1300; the sense 鈥渁 variety of sweet apple鈥� dates from the 16th century.
how is sweeting used?
… I do give her the frut of two appel trees one a sweeting ye nothermost of ye sweetings in ye Lower yard and ye westermost tree by ye highway.
They be not righteous actions that make a righteous man; nor be they evil actions that make a wicked man: for a tree must be a sweeting tree before it yield sweetings; and a crab tree before it bring forth crabs.