Secondhand Smoking Jacks: Re: Re: Minding the gap

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Scooter, for you....C was as enamored with "way out" as I was with "mind the gap".

Scooter said...: Merci.; June 11, 2009 at 7:46:00 AM CDT
Stephanie said...: exit (n.)
1538, from L. exit "he or she goes out," third pers. sing. pres. indicative of exire "go out," from ex- "out" + ire "go." Also from L. exitus "a leaving, a going out," noun of action from exire. Originally in Eng. as a stage direction (c.1485); Sense of "door for leaving" is 1786. The verb is 1607, from the noun; the verb in the transitive sense is first recorded 1976, Amer.Eng.; if it can't be killed, it ought to be quarantined in the clunky jargon of police reports.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=exit&searchmode=none; June 11, 2009 at 9:47:00 AM CDT
Stephanie said...: Made me wonder where the word "exit" came from.; June 11, 2009 at 9:48:00 AM CDT

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