But why is "counter+top=countertop" ?
Counter - Etymology: Middle English countour, from Middle French comptouer, from Medieval Latin computatorium computing place, from Latin computare.
<Place where money was counted. Furniture used to do so. Hence the top of it.>
Interesting.
I am wondering how it evolved to "To meet or return (a blow) by another blow"?
You have not all "answers"?
That's because it's another word, a verb - to counter : Etymology: Middle English
countren, from Middle French
contre against, opposite, from Latin
contra;
^JB^ wrote:No, we write on the paper, and use tape to stick the words out.
got it?
So it's like a lift-off tape? You must have different kinds of paper than we do! I don't think this would work for US kinds of paper. You don't use erasers?
Such little things, and so different!
Francis wrote:You have not all "answers"?
That's because it's another word, a verb - to counter : Etymology: Middle English
countren, from Middle French
contre against, opposite, from Latin
contra;
Ok, my enthusiasm is too strong. :wink:
BorisKitten wrote:^JB^ wrote:No, we write on the paper, and use tape to stick the words out.
got it?
So it's like a lift-off tape? You must have different kinds of paper than we do! I don't think this would work for US kinds of paper. You don't use erasers?
Such little things, and so different!
I find you prefer using pencils while we prefer using pens
What's that?
And I hope you could talk more about the word "bump"
Thanks
JB...another typo(typing mistake)
It should read "pumping iron"
Though in my case it would be bumping iron...I'm not too strong...lol
Bump hips in a dance called The "BUMP"
Threads used to be listed with the amount of activity and replies associated with them. "BUMP"ing it would help insure the topic or article would be noticable. Now its just used as a bookmark for people to return to when viewing their own remarks.
I'll leave you with a final image...enjoy your day my friend.
sorry for the typo... I have to be careful next time. And yes I was exactly asking for "bump" not "pump"
Thanks for the images, panzade
espicially your last one :wink:
So, as I understand "bump" is a word similar to "collide", plus a forceful blow.
Ha! I do a lot more Bumping iron than Pumping it!
Panz, love that BMUP sign on the pavement! And that being under the car appears to have some large pet-like things nesting on her chest. Yeah, well, being married to a car mechanic, I know there's nothing she can fix under that part of the car. Besides, she needs more practical shoes than that to fix a car.
JB, I think a bump is usually more gentle than a collision. Unless you've bumped your head, which hurts!
And oh, pens! Do you have erasable pens like we do? They were invented fairly recently.
Wah, we don't have ANY lift-off tape to fix pen errors... we use "White-Out," a staple in all offices, which paints over errors in white. Looks a bit like a nail polish container and has a little brush to wipe on the white stuff. You hafta then wait for it to dry before writing over it, and it never looks right afterwards.
I always liked pens better than pencils... pencils write too lightly, and with my poor vision I can hardly see what I've written. Gets worse every year!
White-Out, I got it. We have it too. But many experts say that the gas emitted from the liquid is harmful to health. And I realy hate the strange smell of it.
Tape makes no milky spots as white-out does which I regard as scruffy stuff. Making the paper where lifting takes place more thin is a big disadvantage of using a tape. Always for average paper the maximum lifting times on one spot is ("is" or "are"?) 2, if you do that extremely carefully.
So if I have already used the tape and have another error on the same spot, I may hafta (cool word^_^) ask others to lend me a white-out.
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