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A 5 page paper which takes a recent newspaper article and discusses the history or etymology of some of the words in the article. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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in definition through the centuries. What meant one thing long ago now means something completely different. Most people would assume this is the case with slang, which often takes words
like "cool" and turns them into something else, but words are forever changing their meaning as they slowly evolve along in the English language. The following paper takes a newspaper
article and examines some of the words found in that article, discussing their history and original meaning. The newspaper article is "Bishop threatened: Police investigating alleged death threat; Diocese says
Kolb is suspect" and is written by Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola for the Gallup Independent. Words Investigation One word used in this article is
the word investigation. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary (2005) the word first originated in 1436 from the Latin word investigationem. This word meant "a searching into" which is actually
derived from " from investigatus, pp. of investigare, from in- in + vestigare to track, trace, from vestigium footprint, track...Investigate is c.1510 back-formation" (Online Etymology Dictionary, 2005). As we can
see this particular word is relatively recent in historical terms and has not strayed much, if at all it seems, from its original meaning. Misdemeanor The next word
to be discussed and examined is "misdemeanor." The word is one that comes from the word "demean" which means "to conduct" (Word Origins.org, 2005). In terms of strict legal considerations,
the word "misdemeanor" has generally been used to "classify less serious crimes" (Word Origins.org, 2005). But, the general usage of this word has varied: "Through the years the word has
been used to refer to a variety of crimes, serious and minor. A 1494 usage uses it to refer to a murder. Until very recently, the term was simply synonymous
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