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RE: “J” – Vocab-ability – A More Powerful Vocabulary (This post includes all entries beginning with the letter “J”)

in #writing7 years ago

I don't know how a "ject" goes from "throw" to "plan" in "project", does it come from "throwing everything at this one work."

But yeah... the meaning "throw" suits the word "Eject" completely!!


I was surprised when I saw "Journ" meant "Day" I always thought that it means something written, now I know where the words Dairy and Journal are used instead of each other.


I already guessed that Juv would mean young or something similar...


Finally I agree with @fitinfun, in that doing smaller posts with more commentary would help a lot... and I was very happy to see that you plan on doing that!!

Let's do the English Justice

Glad for your posts!! Will see "L" later... because it seems there's no K.

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"L" was posted yesterday. Review at your leisure.

As for "project," you raise an interesting point about how languages and words develop. To take "project" as an example ...

"pro" = forward
"ject" = throw

So, "project" of course means to "throw forward." That maybe changed over time to include the meaning of "thrust forward." And over many more years, it changed more, to mean "plan forward."

Eventually, people started to use "project" not only as a verb, but also as a noun. So, today, we have the noun "PROJECT." Its meaning is slightly different, and its pronunciation is different "PRO-ject" instead of "proo-JECT."

But the original root meaning "throw forward" still applies. It will always help people to learn and remember this word. And increase their VOCAB-ABILITY. :-)

Now I really think you should add commentary to your posts... if this was in the post itself it would've been Curie worthy or better!!

Thanks for the explaination

After the entire series of "alphabetical groupings" is finished and posted, I will begin posts of each individual entry. I might add notes on the etymology of each root.