Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:15:04 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: <sereciya@kurdistan.ath.cx>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD logo... Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20030416010620.0310a270@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030415235701.GA16666@kurdistan.ath.cx> References: <XFMail.030415142305.nicole@unixgirl.com> <3E9C6992.90403@potentialtech.com> <XFMail.030415142305.nicole@unixgirl.com>
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At 16:57 15/04/2003 -0700, sereciya@kurdistan.ath.cx wrote:
> Take the words "fare well" for example. English speaking folk commonly use
> this to mean "good bye". It just happens to be French, and what it really
> means is "do well"; not really having anything to do with travel or even
> departure.
You'd better explain that to the OED editors, then. They list "faer" as
meaning "a going, journeying; course, passage, way; voyage" dating back to
c1000, and "fara" as meaning "to journey, travel, make one's way" back to
971. ("fair", "faron", "faren", and "farand" are also used in the same
meaning over the next few centuries.)
Colin Percival
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