ANSWERS: 3
  • I do believe it was a man by the name of Coin.
  • Lieutenant Shineysides
  • 1) "Its like the man who coined the word coin. How can you coin something without knowing you coined it." Source and further information: http://plyswthsqurles.xanga.com/?nextdate=10/5/2004+13:17:3.207&direction=n 2) I found a time information: "coin (n.) 1304, from O.Fr. coigne "a wedge, cornerstone," from L. cuneus "a wedge." Die for stamping metal was wedge-shaped, and the word came to mean "thing stamped, a piece of money" by c.1386. To coin a phrase is c.1590. The "cornerstone" sense is now usually quoin." Source and further information: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=coin&searchmode=none 3) "Take Our Word For It states that an Elizabethan writer named George Puttenham first uttered (or wrote) the phrase in 1589 in his book, "The Arte of English Poesie." And he certainly didn't intend it to be taken as a compliment. "Young schollers not halfe well studied...seeme to coigne fine wordes out of the Latin."" Source and further information: http://ask.yahoo.com/20050211.html

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