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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

"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. :-)

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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.