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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 12 September 2007 - Volume 05</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span>
<span id="_user_gldavenport@student.ysu.edu" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Gary Davenport <<a href="mailto:gldavenport@student.ysu.edu">gldavenport@student.ysu.edu</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2007.09.12 (03) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Hello Lowlanders. The Oxford American Dictionary gives the following etymology for battery:</div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: Baskerville; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">"</span></font></font><font style="font-family: Baskerville; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">ORIGIN </span></font></font><font style="font-family: Baskerville; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Middle
English : from French batterie, from battre 'to strike,' from Latin
battuere. The original sense was [metal articles wrought by hammering,]
later [a number of pieces of artillery used together] ; on this was
based a sense [a number of Leyden jars connected up so as to discharge
simultaneously] (mid 18th cent.), from which sense 1 developed. The
general meaning [a set or series of similar units] ( sense 3 ) dates
from the late 19th cent."</span></font></font></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg"><div><br></div><div>Gary Davenport<br><br>----------<br><br><span>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Grammar<br><br>And to you, too, welcome in the Speakers' Corner, Gary. Great you joined us.<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br>----------<br><br></span><span class="sg"><span>From: </span></span><span id="_user_ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
"Ben J. Bloomgren" <<a href="mailto:ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com">ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com</a>></span><span class="sg"><span><br>
Subject: </span></span>LL-L "Grammar" 2007.09.12 (04) [E]<br><span class="sg"><span><br>
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<div><font size="2">Does anyone know when the word battery in the sense
of electrical storage devices became singular?<br></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Danette and John,</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">I use battery when I have one battery and batteries
when I have many. For example, if your car battery is dead, you're screwed till
ya charge it. On the other hand, you can just buy more batteries for your
shortwave radio when they die on you. It's quantity that changes out the
number.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Ben<br><br>----------<br><br></font><span class="sg"><span class="sg"><span>From: </span></span><span id="_user_ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);"></span></span><span id="_user_Andrys.Onsman@calt.monash.edu.au" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">
Andrys Onsman</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:Andrys.Onsman@calt.monash.edu.au">Andrys.Onsman@calt.monash.edu.au</a>></span><span class="sg"><span id="_user_ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
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Subject: </span></span>LL-L "Grammar" 2007.09.12 (04) [E]<br>
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</span></span></span><div style="direction: ltr;">From: Andrys Onsman<br>Subject: LL-L "Grammar"<br><br>Hi John<br></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q"><br>> Another plural form for a single object I can think of is
<br>> /tweezers/. In my youth I only heard it spoken of as "a pair of<br>> tweezers." Recently I have heard "a tweezer." This sounds a little odd<br>> to my ear but seems perfectly logical.<br>
<br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">I can't see the logic myself - plucking hair with a tweezer would be<br>like eating rice with a chopstick!<br><br>and Ron<br></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q">
><br>> Thanks a lot for the "tweezer," John. That's another one I've heard.<br>> Here's another couple: "tong" instead of "tongs," and "pincer" instead<br>> of "pincers."
<br>><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">Isn't pincer the movement - to compress something between two things? In<br>which case you'd need a pair of pincers, as per the above analogy.<br><br>Cheers<br>
</div><span class="sg">Andrys</span><br></div></div>
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