Many of our verbs started when someone decided to use a noun to stand for some verbal notion related to that noun. First we had hammer , and from that we made hammering. First we had message , and now we have messaging. Oil, oiling, sled, sledding, battle, battling.
The meaning of the verb is built off some context involving the noun, which could be almost anything pounding with a hammer, sending a message, putting oil on, riding a sled, engaging in a battle. Notice the comma placement there? The gentlemen in this phrase are not necessarily taken to be merry already. The people stopped building the city, and God dispersed them throughout the earth. There are no shepherds, no angels, no virgin. Not exactly. The song tells the story of a gracious king who offers a struggling peasant food, company, and encouragement during the Feast of Stephen.
The Feast of Stephen, which commemorates the first Christian martyr Acts — , falls on December 26 in the Roman Catholic tradition and December 27 in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Connect with Josh: Twitter Facebook Blog. There is a story of a young girl in a Sunday school class drawing a picture of the Nativity.
Her teacher looked at it: there were Jesus, Mary and Joseph, an angel, shepherds and sheep … and a very fat man. Sure enough, there was a further upkick in usage in the s, but since then usage has been falling. I found out some time later when I started reading semi-seriously about linguistics. In casual speech, the tongue often anticipates where it has to be next. Note that in the movie Frozen , the reindeer is Sven and the snowman is Olaf.
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