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Friday, April 10, 2009

Kuch Sookha ho jaaye !!

1. X’s most famous work is Y(1540), a poem describing the story of the historic siege of Chittor by Alauddin Khilji in 1303 AD, who attacked Chittor after hearing of the beauty of queen Rani Padmini (she is considered to be the epitome of Indian woman-hood and a personification of sacrifice and valor) , the wife of King Rawal Ratan Singh.

2. There are several theories about the origin of the word X. The Oxford English Dictionary states that word possibly originates from the surname of a fictional rowdy Irish family in a music hall song of the 1890s.Clarence Rooks, in his 1899 book, X Nights, claimed that the word came from Patrick ‘X’, an Irish bouncer and thief who lived in the London borough of Southwark. Another writer, Earnest Weekley, wrote in his 1912 book Romance of Words, "The original X were a spirited Irish family of that name whose proceedings enlivened the drab monotony of life in Southwark about fourteen years ago".

3. The origin of the phrase X, meaning to be careful of one’s behavior, is not known. Explanations for the phrase abound. Some are plausible, some are not. The phrase dates to at least 1779 when it appears in Hannah Cowley’s Who’s The Dupe?:
You must X with him, I can tell you.
There are other forms that are older, such as this from Samuel Rowlands’ 1612 The Knave of Harts:
Bring in a quart of Maligo, right true: And looke, you Rogue, that it X.

4. X is used in modern Japan for those who have failed the yearly school entrance examinations for high school or university, and then decide to spend the next year studying to retake those exams.

1 comment:

arjun prasannan said...

Padmavat, written by Malik Muhammad Jayasi in the Awadhi language in the year 1540.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Kuch Sookha ho jaaye !!

1. X’s most famous work is Y(1540), a poem describing the story of the historic siege of Chittor by Alauddin Khilji in 1303 AD, who attacked Chittor after hearing of the beauty of queen Rani Padmini (she is considered to be the epitome of Indian woman-hood and a personification of sacrifice and valor) , the wife of King Rawal Ratan Singh.

2. There are several theories about the origin of the word X. The Oxford English Dictionary states that word possibly originates from the surname of a fictional rowdy Irish family in a music hall song of the 1890s.Clarence Rooks, in his 1899 book, X Nights, claimed that the word came from Patrick ‘X’, an Irish bouncer and thief who lived in the London borough of Southwark. Another writer, Earnest Weekley, wrote in his 1912 book Romance of Words, "The original X were a spirited Irish family of that name whose proceedings enlivened the drab monotony of life in Southwark about fourteen years ago".

3. The origin of the phrase X, meaning to be careful of one’s behavior, is not known. Explanations for the phrase abound. Some are plausible, some are not. The phrase dates to at least 1779 when it appears in Hannah Cowley’s Who’s The Dupe?:
You must X with him, I can tell you.
There are other forms that are older, such as this from Samuel Rowlands’ 1612 The Knave of Harts:
Bring in a quart of Maligo, right true: And looke, you Rogue, that it X.

4. X is used in modern Japan for those who have failed the yearly school entrance examinations for high school or university, and then decide to spend the next year studying to retake those exams.

1 comment:

arjun prasannan said...

Padmavat, written by Malik Muhammad Jayasi in the Awadhi language in the year 1540.