the word nice
Most people, who speak English, in the world today have a similar understanding of the word nice. We would use it in the sense that something is pleasing, polite, agreeable, or respectable. Someone's mother might state that "he's a nice boy" or "she's a nice girl". For most this would be considered a compliment, unless, of course, your mother is trying to act as a matchmaker. Nice is a word that most people like to have associated with them. Nice people are much more likeable than mean people, and overall, being nice is a very good trait. Just because being nice is an enviable trait now that has not always been the case. From the first recorded use of the word until today it's meaning has constantly changed. Over the centuries it has been used as an adjective, an adverb, and a noun. In the Old English Dictionary there are over seventeen recorded definitions of the word nice, and over twelve different spellings of the same word. Some examples of those spellings are nyce,nys,nyse, nies, and nist. The word is d
All but four of the seventeen definitions of this word are obsolete. This meaning was in recorded use until the year 1710, and is now considered obsolete. Its progress or evolution is erratic, which is one of the reasons that it is so hard to track. The second recorded meaning of the word was in use from the years 1325-1606, and it is also obsolete. During this period the word meant "wanton, loose mannered, or lascivous". efinitely still is use today, but there are many uses of the word that have become obsolete over time. From this meaning I will skip along to the year 1596 when the word was recorded as meaning "critical, doubtful, full of danger, and uncertainty". At first it can be speculated that ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. From the years 1290-1557 this was one of the more prevalent meanings of the word nice, especially in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. "To set so rich a mayne On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre, It were not good". In this quote it is noticable that the spelling of the word is the same as it is as the English in use today. A speaker or writer of modern English might say that my dream was so strange and unusual, instead of my dream was so nice.
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