SRIJAN 2002-2003(1st Edition)

♦ YORE/Introduction
Yore : The Time Turner
THE PAST PEEPS INTO THE FUTURE
•Avinash Rude•
An educational institute in known by its products. It is her own groomed children by whom her
efficacy can be rightly adjudged. So indeed the products of this institution are the rightful judges to her
performance and pointers to her improvements.
In its passouts, an institution treasures a vast resource to nurture, help and improve its present and
future generations. So to unleash this resource, we invited articles from our passouts and gave them similar
guidelines to write upon. Though just a few of the many, their writings are what shall throw light upon the
thousands of days that each day, this Alma mater lives.
We think this a stroke in the right direction and hope this section provides delightful insight into their
experiences.
THE UNKNOWN ORIGINS OF SOME COMON EXPRESSIONS :
BLUE BLOOD : This strange term for noble birth or aristocratic descent is a direct translation of the Spanish
'saugre azue'. In Spain, a pale complexion used to be considered a sign of pure breeding and tended to be
associated with aristocratic families. Hence the idea of 'blud blood' developed as a hallmark of the nobility.
AS SURE AS EGGE IS EGGS : How did this peculiar way of saying 'without a doubt' originate? In all
probabilities, an egg is here a deliberately comic distrotion of x.
In algebra, a basic equation id that x always equals to x. If anything accepted as a rule by all
mathematicians and logicians, it is just that - x = x. So if you want to give a guarantee of the accuracy of a
prediction, for instance, you might emphasise that it is as sure as x ix =- or as eggs is eggs.
DRESSED UPTO THE NINES : Why smartly dressed sometimes referred to as dressed up to nines?
A theory suggests an illusion to a very high standard, nine marks out of a possible ten. This does not sound
very convincing. A more likely explanation is that the phrase was, in early English, something like 'dressed up
to then eyne'. - i.e. 'dressed up to eyes'. In recent times, the old phrase 'then eyen' was misheard as 'the nines';
and written down that way.
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