Granted

In the pre-modern world, "philosophy" referred to all forms of intellectual knowledge. Today, the discipline of "philosophy" is just one aspect of the traditional field of philosophia , or "love of knowledge. The pronoun "they" was borrowed into English from Old Norse.

In today's episode, we explore the entire history of "they," from its roots as Proto-Germanic demonstrative adjective to its modern usage as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun in English. Subjectification is a unique linguistic process by which a word evolves to reflect the subjective viewpoint of the speaker using it. For example, the word "very" used to mean "true," but over time, it lost its objectivity and merely became a way of emphasizing subjective points of view. In this explore, we episode this process in a broad sense and look at a few more examples. Subscribe and download with: The word "the" is the sole definite article in the English language.

It's also the most common word in our language. However, for such a grammatically fundamental word, its history isn't as straightforward as one might think. Old English had a whopping twenty different forms of the definite article, all of which collapsed into the single, versatile word "the" by the time of Modern English.

We discuss some of these older forms and their evolutions. In this crossover episode, Steve and I discuss the linguistic influence of the King James Bible and some common English idioms that have Biblical etymologies.

The -ly suffix is a contraction hiding in plain sight. It is cognate with the word "like," and indeed, it literally means "like.

Amazingly, both "like" and "-ly" derive from a root word meaning "body or corpse. Download and Subscribe with: To be or not to be?

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Well, if you're conjugating the verb, you're most likely using a form that does not sound like "to be. Grammar is one of the defining features of language.

In today's episode, we look at some of the fundamentals of grammar in general, and then take a brief tour through the historical evolution of English grammar itself. Part 1 in a five-part series.

Today's episode serves as an "epilogue" to the series on Biblical etymology. Roughly equivalent to a century, the "saeculum," as it was known in Ancient Rome, was celebrated with pagan rituals, theater, and games. Over the course episode, we trace its development from antiquity to the 19th century philosophical movement. The word "God" is not derived from the original Biblical texts. It was a term originally used in Germanic paganism and was adapted to Christianity many centuries after it had already been in use.

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To allow or consent to the fulfillment of something requested: To give or confer officially or formally: I grant that your plan is ingenious, but you still will not find many backers. Something granted, especially a giving of funds for a specific purpose: One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group.

Switch to new thesaurus. Would you grant me one favour; He granted the man permission to leave. I grant you that it was a stupid thing to do. He was awarded a grant for studying abroad. Granted that you are right, we will have to move fast. I took it for granted that you had heard the story. People take electricity for granted until their supply is cut off.