where the words come from...

According to this passage, the defination of the word is the meaningful sound in a language. Words are created from different ways, such as by borrowing, sharing, compounding, and erroring. However, sometimes many words vary its different meaning in order to having the same speeling these words are describes as polysemy; for example, boil in the sense of heating a pan of a water, and it also could be defined as an irruption of the skin. Thses are the things often make us confused if we don't know their various definations. Additionally, some of the words have the same pronunciation as others except its spelling; for example, the word flour, and flower provide the same sound except the meaning. Most of the english words are came from German, in addtion to borrowing and blending from others; for example, sofa is one of the words in English that is adopted from Arabic. However, the most interesting part which this chapter illustrates that the erroring words. for example, the word sweetheart originally formed from the word 'sweetard'. The reason why some of the words came by erroring is becuase of our mishearing. Additionally, many words came from writers, for example the words barefaced, critical, leapfrog, excellent, majestic, gust, lonely, hurry, hin and countless came from Shakespears. Beside this some of the words provided the opposite meaning of a same word; for example, the word brave once implied as cowardice.