For a class to transfer, that college has to offer the exact same course in order to give you credit for it. Thatâs why English 121 transfers (most every college in Colorado offers that exact course), but Welding 125 does not (most four-year colleges do not offer welding).
Word roots and routes: cess, cease, cede, ceed. exceed â excess recede â recession succeed â success, succession. Email this Post. Next in a series of posts exploring some of the ârootsâ and âroutesâ of English vocabulary. English has many related words containing the roots cede, ceed, cess and cease, derived from the Latin verb cÄdere (go, go away, withdraw, yield) and its past participle cessus. Cede and cease exist as independent words, but this group of roots flourishes particularly in combination with prefixes.
Cuss is simply an American alteration of curse, and its meaning âto say bad wordsâ was first recorded in 1815. How does swear come to simultaneously mean âto bind oneself by oath,â and âto use profane oaths or languageâ? The earliest swear words were identical to curse words â taking the Christian Godâs name in vain, or speaking of acts that were considered sinful.