Show TRACED TO PRIMITIVE DAYS how tha word WOM score scare came into general use ue at a indicating a token of reckoning the one days of our age are threescore years yeara and ten said the psalmist showing that our fo forefathers re fathers reckoned by vows a system of keeping account of figures based probably in it its form upon the practice of counting upon the fingers and toes the word score itself comes from th the evanglo ablo saxon being nothing more than the word sc oren orene ll 11 which Is the 9 past participle of an meaning 9 to cat cu t a notch or incision made upon a tally stick for the purpose of it keeping a record of financial tran trans transact abt rons the score marle mark was the twentieth notch upon these primitive account hoa books a cut which was longer and deeper than the others hence the espre expression slon to pay off old scores the repayment of old debts but the revenging of grievances which ha have IT e cut deep and left a lasting impression it Is ii for the same reason that or of reckoning Kee koning that we speak of the score core of a game in meaning the record of the points made and the ahe score or musical record of an opera london tit bits |