Borrowings have influenced the English language a lot but native elements should not be disregarded or overlooked. Latin borrowings cheap, pepper, street, mile, butter, cheese, wine, inch, ounce, pound, kitchen, plum, cup, dish, mint, Leicester, Clocester, colonia, lincoln, fossbrok, mass, monk, nun, bishop, abbot, minster, apostle, pope, altar, hymn, democratic, juvenile, sophisticated, abortion, enthusiasm, permissions, imaginary, allusion, anachronism, dexterity, nucleus, formula, vertebra, corpuscle, atomic, carnivorous, incubate, molecule, i.e- that is, viz- videlicet, etc- et cetera, c.f- confer Latin adjectives for english nouns- nose-nasal, mouth-oral, sun-solar, Greek borrowings abbot, angel, apostle, bishop, school, cilinder, cycle, dialogue, cardiac, phonetic, gymnasium, biathlon, pentathlon, decathlon, olympic, diagnosis, prognosis, analysis, technology, epic, drama, poem, tragedy, comedy, theatre, epilogue, prologue, metaphor
colonia - Lincoln vicus ‘village’ - Greenwich, Harwich fossa ‘ditch’ - Fossbrook religious (6-7th centuries) mass, monk, nun, bishop, abbot, minster, apostle, pope, altar, hymn, angel, devil literary (renaissance) democratic, juvenile, sophisticated, aberration, enthusiasm, pernicious, imaginary, allusion, anachronism, dexterity scientific (17th-18th nucleus, formula, vertebra, corpuscle, atomic,carnivorous, incubate, aqueous, centuries) molecule The plurals of nucleus, verterbra, corpus, etc. Latin abbreviations in English i.e. = id est that is to say viz = namely etc = et cetera Latin adjectives for English nouns nose – nasal sun – solar son – filial mother – maternal
Colonia – colony : Lincoln Vicus – village : Greenwich, Harwich Fossa – ditch : Fossbrook Religious (6.-7.century) o Mass, monk, nun, bishop, abbot, minster, apostle, pope, altar, hymn, angel, devil Literary (renaissance) o Democratic, juvenile, sophisticated, aberration, enthusiasm, pernicious, imaginary, allusion, anachronism, dexterity Scientific (17.-18. century) o Nucleus, formula, vertebra, corpuscle, atomic, carnivorous, incubate, aqueous, molecule Latin abbreviations o i.e – id est – that is to say Latin adjectives for english nouns o Nasal, oral, solar, paternal, maternal, lithic, lunar, filial Actual inflected Latin verbs used as nouns o Audio, audit, caveat, video.
cease to function properly if it has not taken into account its external climate, the ways in which it is being influenced by the larger society of which it is a part, and the other environmentally impacting systems within it. This is the role of vision. If a school is not aware nor has an understanding of the social forces impacting change, such as the political climate, economic conditions, demographic changes, and the social environment, it can quickly become a historical and social anachronism. The following graphic lays out the process for effecting change. Once these four questions are answered than appropriate training, giving people the right knowledge and skills to implement programs can be undertaken. The process for developing a Vision Statement and Values Statement differs from the one used for a Mission Statement. Developing the Vision Statement is the responsibility of the Administrator/Principal, with the assistance of the School Board. On the other hand, the Values
They are technically on the level and their sound is homogeneous. The woodwinds lack remarkably in their quality of tone and the brass are sometimes guilty of improper intonation. The evening started with Bucolics by the Estonian female composer Ester Mägi. A sorrowful sound landscape with bird-calls, sounds of nature and flute singing unperturbed with dissonant sharpness... As a modern work one has no need to consider it just seriously. Bucolics was an amiable anachronism.3 The chief conductor Arvo Volmer found that several hopes have been realised: the growth of stability, the foreign tours stood on an appreciable level, but there were not enough possibilities for recording and it was felt necessary to work more at home.4 1 Päevaleht 4 Nov. 1993. 2 Westdeutsche Zeitung [Düsseldorf] 19 Nov. 1996. 3 Hans Hubert Schieffer. With a lovable idyll Rheinische Post 19 Nov. 1996. 4 ‘ERSO – 70’ Kultuurileht 10 Jan. 1997.