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GLAMOUR MODELS [free amateur glamour photo gallery] 1. An air of compelling charm, romance, and excitement, especially when delusively alluring. 2. Archaic. A magic spell; enchantment. Where else would you find glamour but on a windswept Scottish heath? Though you might look elsewhere for glamour today, the Scottish dialect of English is where all other English speakers got the word. Of course the Scots had a more serious meaning for it. Originally it meant nothing more or less than grammar, the study of the proper form of words and sentences. This was back in the Middle Ages, when only a few clerics and clerks (both words have the same origin) knew how to write. To others, grammar meant something mysterious and magical, as it still does to many who wrestle with the language today. Eventually grammar came to have a secondary meaning of "magic." In Scots, the word had an l instead of the first r. We find writers from Scotland using this magical glamour in English as early as 1720. Later in the eighteenth century, the poet Robert Burns writes of And the novelist Sir Walter Scott discussed the magical glamour in his Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1830). In the twentieth century, it was apparently American usage that transferred the glamour of magic to the glamour of fashion, personality, and life style. To make the word even more glamorous, Americans retained the British our ending instead of changing it to or as we usually do (in words like color and flavor). Scots is the distinctive Scottish version of the English language. It has been spoken in the lowlands of Scotland for over a thousand years, almost as long as English English has been spoken in the south. Scots English is now spoken by almost all of Scotland's population of five million. The rest of the English-speaking world has learned from Scots words like feckless (1585), jockey (1670), flunky (1782), rampage (1808), and wow! (1513). Until recently, the principal language in the highlands of Scotland was Scots Gaelic, a Celtic language and close relative of Irish and Welsh. About 90,000 people still speak Scots Gaelic. The several dozen imports into English from that language include such well-known words as loch (1375), clan (1425), glen (1489), plaid (1512), slogan (1513), spunk (1582), and trousers (1613). Source: Answers |
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