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you may use a word every morning in a coffee shop, yet not realise the full underlying meaning of your words.
Take a sentence : The Pontiff was elected by a conclave of Cardinals.
ie....The Bridge-builder was elected by a key-holding of Hinges.
The name Crawley is derived from Old English, meaning a "clearing frequented by crows" or "crow-infested wood". It originates from the words crāwe (crow) and lēah (woodland, clearing, or meadow). The West Sussex town developed from this, with early spellings like Crauleia appearing around 1203.
Chancellor....The original chancellors were the cancellarii of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the cancelli (lattice work screens) of a basilica (court hall), which separated the judge and counsel from the audience
The Chancellor of the Exchequer title stems from the medieval, 12th-century institution responsible for auditing royal revenues, derived from the Latin scaccarium (chessboard or checkered cloth). It describes the large checkered table used to calculate taxes, with "Chancellor" referring to the official supervising this accounting, often a clerk or advisor
And the Shah in Iran ? he lost at chess.
"Checkmate" derives from the Persian phrase shāh māt, meaning "the king is helpless," "the king is stunned," or "the king is abandoned," rather than the common misconception "the king is dead". It traveled through Arabic to Europe, where it was reinterpreted to signify a final, irrevocable defeat.
the Shah had a day of 'Reckoning'........a day of adding up the numbers.
Dandelion ...... Norman French for the flower that looks like the 'teeth of a Lion'
what others ?
Take a sentence : The Pontiff was elected by a conclave of Cardinals.
ie....The Bridge-builder was elected by a key-holding of Hinges.
The name Crawley is derived from Old English, meaning a "clearing frequented by crows" or "crow-infested wood". It originates from the words crāwe (crow) and lēah (woodland, clearing, or meadow). The West Sussex town developed from this, with early spellings like Crauleia appearing around 1203.
Chancellor....The original chancellors were the cancellarii of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the cancelli (lattice work screens) of a basilica (court hall), which separated the judge and counsel from the audience
The Chancellor of the Exchequer title stems from the medieval, 12th-century institution responsible for auditing royal revenues, derived from the Latin scaccarium (chessboard or checkered cloth). It describes the large checkered table used to calculate taxes, with "Chancellor" referring to the official supervising this accounting, often a clerk or advisor
And the Shah in Iran ? he lost at chess.
"Checkmate" derives from the Persian phrase shāh māt, meaning "the king is helpless," "the king is stunned," or "the king is abandoned," rather than the common misconception "the king is dead". It traveled through Arabic to Europe, where it was reinterpreted to signify a final, irrevocable defeat.
the Shah had a day of 'Reckoning'........a day of adding up the numbers.
Dandelion ...... Norman French for the flower that looks like the 'teeth of a Lion'
what others ?
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