Words, Etymology and Lit Quiz

Words
Sreepathi
October 28, 2012

Complete:
1. X
2. Bachelor
3. Master
4. Doctor
What is X?

1. Scholar
2. Bachelor
3. Master
4. Doctor

The following groups refer to their countries as

Fatherland. What word in English derives from
this?
Spanish
Romans
Italians
Germans, etc.

Patriotism.
From the root patris (paternal, etc.)

The book on the right

introduced the term X Y
which has now entered fairly
common usage.
According to Kuhn, "A X is
what members of a scientific
community, and they alone,
share."
What term X Y (2 words)?

According to Kuhn, "A

paradigm is what members
of a scientific community,
and they alone, share."
The term is paradigm shift.

Killing:
Self Suicide
Parents Parricide
choices - ?

De-cide

Apparently, the most famous unkindness is this group

of six at the Tower of London, kept on staff at and paid
for by the British Govt. Currently, they consist of Hardey,
Thor, Odin, Gwyllum, Cedric, Hugine and Munin.
Legend has it that if this unkindness leaves, the
monarchy will fall.
They're also the reason Greenwich is so prominent in
astronomy circles!

An unkindness is a group of ravens. This group is the

Tower Ravens.

High Chancellor Gorkon, "You have not

experienced Shakespeare until you have read
him in the original X.
Thus, translations of Hamlet (Hamlet) and Much
Ado About Nothing (paghmo' tIn mIS).
Which language X, the largest spoken of its
kind?

Klingon, the world's largest spoken fictional

language.
Aside: When a child was taught (from birth),
English and Klingon, the child rejected Klingon!

From Wikipedia:
The Program in X Studies and the Therapeutic
Encounter (PiXS) was founded in July 2011, at Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard
Medical School. Its purpose is to bring together
researchers who are examining the X response and the
impact of medical ritual, the patient-physician
relationship and the power of imagination, hope, trust,
persuasion, compassion and empathic witnessing in the
healing process.
What is X?

(Clue?)

From Wikipedia:
The Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic
Encounter (PiPS) was founded in July 2011, at Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard
Medical School. Its purpose is to bring together
researchers who are examining the Placebo response
and the impact of medical ritual, the patient-physician
relationship and the power of imagination, hope, trust,
persuasion, compassion and empathic witnessing in the
healing process.

X was a prolific popularizer of English over 2000

words in current English usage can be traced to his
writings: absent, border, box, digestion, wallet, etc.
Gave us the phrase:
The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne
Not Shakespeare. Link to:

Geoffrey Chaucer
The pic is of Canterbury Cathedral.

The German Deutsches Wrterbuch is the largest and

most comprehensive dictionary of the German
Language.
Started in 1838 by X and Y, it was finally finished in
1961!
Work on it survived two world wars, the separation of
the Germanies, the hyperinflation of the mark, etc.
Who are X and Y, famous for something quite else?

The Brothers Grimm.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, most
famous for their collection of
fairy tales.

He worked on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary

in 1919 and 1920, apparently saying of his stay there
learned more in those two years than in any other
equal period of my life. The words he worked on are
the beginning of W, waggle to warlock. He struggled
with the etymology for walrus, and enjoyed teasing
out the fine distinction between words. He left OED for
a teaching career soon after.
In 1969, he was consulted for a word he had created
which would appear in the second volume (H to N). The
meaning he gave remains in the OED till today.
Who and what word?

J. R. R. Tolkien, and the word is Hobbit.

In the tales of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973): one of an
imaginary people, a small variety of the human race, that
gave themselves this name (meaning hole-dweller) but
were called by others halflings, since they were half the
height of normal men.

Other words from LOTR: mathom, orc, mithril