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03-15-2015 08:09 AM |
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Originally Posted by MakeMeGrrrrowl
(Post 20418496)
That's not nice at all. :(
I wasn't being malicious, I was just saying you spelled it wrong. I used to spell it wrong too, then I learned to spell it correctly and now it's a pet peeve.
That's all toots, nothing more nothing less. Just giving you a little spelling lesson for your grammAr question.
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fair enough... I spelled grammer the way I was pronouncing the word... but now I'll say grammar :thumbsup
grammar (n.) Look up grammar at Dictionary.comearly 14c., gramarye (late 12c. in surnames), from Old French gramaire "learning," especially Latin and philology, "grammar, (magic) incantation, spells, mumbo-jumbo," "irregular semi-popular adoption" [OED] of Latin grammatica, from Greek grammatike tekhne "art of letters," with a sense of both philology and literature in the broadest sense, fem. adjective from gramma "letter," from stem of graphein "to draw or write" (see -graphy). An Old English word for it was stæfcræft (see staff (n.)).
Form grammar is from late 14c. Restriction to "rules of language" is a post-classical development, but as this type of study was until 16c. limited to Latin, Middle English gramarye also came to mean "learning in general, knowledge peculiar to the learned classes" (early 14c.), which included astrology and magic; hence the secondary meaning of "occult knowledge" (late 15c.), which evolved in Scottish into glamor (q.v.).
A grammar school (late 14c.) originally was "a school in which the learned languages are grammatically taught" [Johnson, who also has grammaticaster "a mean verbal pedant"]. In U.S. (1842) the term was put to use in the graded system for "a school between primary and secondary where English grammar is taught." |
