HeyJaredTim Waltner
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Waltner: A word harvest on the combine (opens the original)
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I’ve long been fascinated by the origin of words and phrases. We have more than a dozen “word” books on our bookshelves. Online resources have opened hundreds of other sources of information. Among the word origins that have intrigued me is “combine,” farm equipment in high use this time of year. How did a verb (com BINE), a process, become a noun (COM bine), equipment? The answer, I learned, is logical: “Combine” is shorthand for “combined harvester-thresher.” It literally combines three separa
Waltner: A word harvest on the combine (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I’ve long been fascinated by the origin of words and phrases. We have more than a dozen “word” books on our bookshelves. Online resources have opened hundreds of other sources of information. Among the word origins that have intrigued me is “combine,” farm equipment in high use this time of year. How did a verb (com BINE), a process, become a noun (COM bine), equipment? The answer, I learned, is logical: “Combine” is shorthand for “combined harvester-thresher.” It literally combines three separa
Waltner: A word harvest on the combine (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I’ve long been fascinated by the origin of words and phrases. We have more than a dozen “word” books on our bookshelves. Online resources have opened hundreds of other sources of information. Among the word origins that have intrigued me is “combine,” farm equipment in high use this time of year. How did a verb (com BINE), a process, become a noun (COM bine), equipment? The answer, I learned, is logical: “Combine” is shorthand for “combined harvester-thresher.” It literally combines three separa
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