Part 12 (1/2)

Drosky.

Knout.

Morse.

Rouble.

Steppe.

Ukase.

Verst.

TARTAR.

Khan.

TURKISH.

Bey.

Caftan.

Chibouk.

Chouse.

Dey.

Janissary.

Kiosk.

Odalisque.

Ottoman.

Tulip.

Yashmak.

Yataghan.

10. +Scientific Terms.+-- A very large number of discoveries in science have been made in this century; and a large number of inventions have introduced these discoveries to the people, and made them useful in daily life. Thus we have _telegraph_ and _telegram_; _photograph_; _telephone_ and even _photophone_. The word _dynamite_ is also modern; and the unhappy employment of it has made it too widely known. Then pa.s.sing fas.h.i.+ons have given us such words as _athlete_ and _aesthete_.

In general, it may be said that, when we wish to give a name to a new thing-- a new discovery, invention, or fas.h.i.+on-- we have recourse not to our own stores of English, but to the vocabularies of the Latin and Greek languages.

LANDMARKS IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

[Transcriber's Note:

In the original book, the following chart was laid out much like a typical table of contents, with the +date+ in a separate column along the right edge. It has been reformatted for this e-text. The date is repeated in brackets where appropriate.]

+450+ 1. +The Beowulf+, an old English epic, ”written on the mainland”

+597+ 2. +Christianity+ introduced by St Augustine (and with it many Latin and a few Greek words)

+670+ 3. +Caedmon+-- 'Paraphrase of the Scriptures,'-- first English poem

+735+ 4. +Baeda+-- ”The Venerable Bede”-- translated into English part of St John's Gospel