Mark Twain passage of boat, was a measure on the sounding line. Twain is an archaic term for "two", as in "The veil of the temple was rent in twain." The riverboatman's cry was "mark twain" or, more fully, "by the mark twain", meaning "according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]", that is, "The water is deep and it is safe to pass." Twain said that his famous pen name was not entirely his invention. In "Life on the Mississippi", he wrote: Captain Isaiah Sellers was not of literary turn or capacity, but he used to jot
Man (word) Romanian, where ' refers to a 'human', vs. " (male). The inflected forms of Old English " are: The inflected forms of Old High German word for "man" (without i-mutation) are: The inflected forms of the Old Norse word for man, "maðr", are: The word "man" is still used in its generic meaning in literary English. The verb "to man" (i.e. "to furnish [a fortress or a ship] with a company of men") dates to early Middle English. The word has been applied generally as a suffix in modern combinations like "fireman", "policeman" and "mailman". With social changes in the