Millard County Chronicle | 1929-12-26 | Page 14 | How Term "Erase" Started

How Term Erase Erae Started When n a Roman settled his bill at atan nt an nn inn as we do toda today at nt a u hotel he would remark Rasa the Rasa the slate Is scraped clean his clean his account I 1 being heing kept on a n slate which would be scratched scratched glean when his bill was aid So the ancestors of ot our English rasa word erase crase are the thc Latin and erasus meaning menning to scrape off oat Today of ot course the word erase Is used to Indicate the thc act of rubbing rubhIn away some som writing b by menns means of a u soft piece of rubber called nn on eraser This however er preserves es only in n a sense the old oW Id Idea n of the word which Is apparent after examining the history history his his- tory of ot the expression and Its Us origInal original original inal usage