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Show rKxvoooo o-oc-qoooKxoo How It Started By Jean Newton I ) OOC:-(K)OCHK000KXXK0CKK0 TO EE "TOUCHY" n'TpOL'ClIY," il niry surprise many A of us to learn, has no relation with "touch." Etyniologicaliy speaking, speak-ing, the words have nothing to do with each other. Our word "touchy," Indicating sensitiveness sen-sitiveness that is quick to take umbrage, um-brage, comes to us from the Old French "Teche" meaning "fault." From Its true sense of "fault" to its imputed slang sense of "fault-finding" was an easy though illogical bridge, but then slang never did make nice distinctions. If it did, it probably would not be slang. (. Bell Syndicate.) WNTJ Service. |