2nd step. What is the origin of the word author?
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author comes from old French autor, from latin auctor, meaning' an originator.' the original sense in Middle English was " someone who invents or causes something. "
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C. Proofreading. The definition of this step is to reread and correct your grammer or any errors.
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maybe it got coined from how wrenching it feels when one discovers they were irrefutably wrong.\n\nsorry, typo
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The creation and arrangement of ideas preliminary to writing.
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author , is what you call a person who writes books , not poems , that's a poet .
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You mean the etymology of the word?  It's Greek in origin.\n\nporne = prostitute  \ngraphia = writings\npornography = drawings of prostitutes
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A few publishers actually state "First Edition" or "First Printing" right on the copyright page (Knopf, Random House, Norton, St. Martin's Press). If only it were always that simple!\n\nMost publishers just give the copyright date or use number sequences, generally ascending or descending number rows, such as 12345678910 or 10987654321. A typical example of this is Houghton Mifflin, which generally now has 10987654321 on the copyright page. For the second printing, the "1" will be dropped, for the third, the "2". A fourth printing will have "10987654". As of the second printing, Houghton Mifflin also drops the year from the bottom of the title page (not all publishers do this, but Houghton Mifflin is especially known for this practice).\n\nSome publishers also use odd-even ascending and decending rows, such as 135798642 and 246897531. Some publishers have nothing but the date. Some use unique systems, and many have changed their systems over time. Random House uses the following system: They have the number row 98765432 and the words "First edition". Their system is unusual in that it doesn't use a "1": it's almost as though the "1" were replaced by the words "First edition", because when the words "first edition" are lacking, it's a second printing. Lately, Random House has been using the ascending-descending system a lot, such as "24689753". It still needs to state "First edition", however, - and, if those 2 words are missing, it's not a first printing.\n\nWe welcome questions about particular books you may have, and will answer them as soon as we can.
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As with all things the answer can be found in Google.  Simply type the name of the article in quotes add a space and then the author's name.
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Ok, this verb actually comes from Old Norse into Middle English, not Old English as I first thought.  The original Middle would have been "geten," similar in usage to the phrases beget, begat, begotten from Latin.  "Geten" would have been the form for all of the phrases originally.  I geten, he geten, they geten, etc.  No change.  That's how many of the Old and Middle verbs were.  \n\nEventually, a second form evolved (linguistically): gotten, probably from the above change of the word begat from Latin, which is actually a completely different word from a different language, not used in the same sense, but probably from the same root in the Proto-English language that existed before the year 450 C.E.  \n\nEventually, this new verbal form, gotten (which, incidently, would be the actual correct form to use in the phrase "I have gotten the note" instead of "I got the note.") degenerated into got to shorten the phrasing.  So, really, the only reason that we use the form got to refer to a specific time/place is because at some point the language masters of the Elizabethan age declared that the word gotten sounded better than the word geten (don't even ask about the shift from one "t" to two "t"s in verbal forms, it's some weird German thing) and so they made it the precise time/place transition.  \n\nThey did a lot of that kind of stuff at the beginning of the Middle to Modern English switch.  They language masters who were printing books were trying to make a common spelling and grammar among the English speakers before true mass printing came into being.\n\nHope this helped!
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The first is a chronological, literal way to say that this was the way that it was done.  It was written the exact way that it happened.  The one in Chapter 2 is a topical, storytelling way to put it.  The author doesn't make them contradicting at all.  When he says "Now the Lord had formed out of the ground all the beasts..." it doesn't indicate that this was after man.  It actually says that this had already been done in the past.  So I don't think the same way as the previous answerer does.  I read them as saying the same thing, but just how you would answer a question differently in a lab report from english class, they are just stylistically different.  If you have more questions about creation, www.answersingenesis.org is a great resource.  I've already been praying for you!
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Whoa... deep, man.\nBut if you're going to go into that, then who named anything?  Who decided to use a certain word for every object that we have a name for?  Who made all the adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, etc. that we use everyday?  It started with some primative human ancestor, but how did it get to what it is today?\n\nWow, I just asked a lot more than I answered.  My bad.  Sorry.
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The dictionary is the only place where success comes before ----." \nWork but I think you have your author wrong, I think Vince Lombardi said it.\n\nI did like the quotes from the Evan Esar  site, that guy was amazing.
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I think this is a case of a writer, or his editor, searching for a word and not coming up with the word he intended. I think he was looking for "tapped," which can mean selected, but his mind gave him "tabbed" instead. It's not the making of a noun into a verb that is the problem. That's done all the time in informal English. It's just not a good word choice.
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i think its is a word the author made up
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"Have you heard of a search engine? "\n\nQuicker to type in to Google.\n\nOne born every minute.\n\nDear Straight Dope:\n\nWhich Dick came first?\n\nOK, so if this isn't too crude of an opener, I will explain myself. My question is a simple one, but one that has troubled me for many years. I am puzzled as to which of these events occurred:\n\n1. Someone (somebody had to be first didn't they?) named Richard thought it was a grand idea to go by a nickname which was also slang for the male genitalia "penis."\n\n2. Penis slang was personified for someone nicknamed Dick who perhaps resembled in appearance or actions the male genitalia.\n\n3. Some "coincidence" which cannot be explained.\nAdding to the uniqueness of this nickname is that Dick only shares two letters with Richard. Can you imagine for example "Pussy" being an acceptable nickname for Priscilla. Or "Tits" for Theresa. Perhaps "Ass" for Osama is on the way into the language and we don't even know it yet. --Justin aka "Kneecap"\n\nSDSTAFF Dex replies:\n\nSure, or perhaps "to Cecil" will come to mean "to be wise beyond one's years."\n\nObviously the name came first. The name Richard is very old, although its origin is disputed. Old English had Richeard, from Ric (ruler) and heard (hard); French had Richart, and Old German had Ricohard. The name Richer was also fairly common until the 13th Century or thereabouts.\n\nIn those days, manuscripts, letters, grocery lists, and everything else was written by hand; it was therefore common and easier to use agreed-upon abbreviations. "Rich." was used for "Richer" and "Ric." for "Richard" or "Ricard."\n\nRichard and Ricard were equally popular in the Middle Ages, and the abbreviations led naturally to diminutives--such as Rich, Richie, Rick, and Ricket. Rhyming nicknames were also fairly common in the 12th and 13th centuries, and so we also have Hitch from Rich, Hick and Dick from Rick, and Hicket from Ricket. Some of these later became surnames or parts of surnames. We note that while Dick endures as a nickname, "Hick" has thankfully become obsolete, except when tied to "Dick" in rhymes such as "Hickory, Dickory, Dock."\n\nIn the 13th and 14th centuries, "Hick" evolved, however improbably, into "Hudde," from which derives surnames such as "Hudson." W. Bardsley's masterful work, Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1901) cites a Latin manuscript that mentions "Ricardus dictus Hudde de Walkden."\n\nBack at the ranch, Dick and Hick were among the earliest of the rhyming nicknames, first appearing in writing around 1220. Other rhyming nicknames include Polly from Molly, Bob from Rob (from Robert), Bill from Will (from William); and Hodge from Roger.\n\nThe name Dick (like the name Jack) was used colloquially to mean a man or everyman. The expression "every Tom, Dick, or Harry" attests to the this as a long-established usage; Shakespeare uses "every Tom, Dick, or Francis" in Henry IV Part I.\n\nFrom the usage of Dick to mean average person, other usages appeared. Many other usages. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a dick as meaning a type of hard cheese in 1847, which lead to the usage of "spotted dick" (to be dealt with in an upcoming Staff Report.) The term "dick" was also used to mean a riding whip, an apron, the mound around a ditch, and an abbreviation for "dictionary" around 1860.\n\nDick also meant a declaration, in which sense the OED cites someone writing in 1878 "I'd take my dying dick" to mean "I'd swear a dying declaration." The term "dick" came to mean policeman around 1908, and then detective.\n\nAnd we finally get to where you started. The use of "dick" as coarse slang for penis first arises a
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First one must think before one writes. Thinking could also be subconscious and one writes automatically. This style of writing was made famous by the Irish novelist James Joyce. Since writing is a form of action, there needs to be a thought to start the writing engine.
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It is called a palindrome:\n\n"A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that has the property of reading the same in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). The word "palindrome" was coined from Greek roots Greek πάλιν (palin) "back" and δρóμος (dromos) "way, direction" by English writer Ben Jonson in the 1600s. Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing."\n\nCheck the second site below for many examples. Also, third link shows longest palindromes around.