Why do kids play so nicely with toys that are not their own? Indy got so many new toys for Christmas that he hasn’t even opened them all yet!
When I get a chance, I’ll have to sit and write about how our break is going, but I feel sacrilegious being on my cell phone while I’m at the library.
While nouns to denote the concept of time have been around for millenia, the use of the word as a verb is far more recent, arriving in English in the 1660s. The Old English word getimian meaning to happen, befall is as early as around 1300; in the sense of to record the time of (a race, event, etc.) is first attested 1660s. The noun time has a separate derivation: from the Old English word tima meaning limited span of time, from Proto Germanic *timon meaning time. Abstract sense of time as an indefinite continuous duration is recorded from late 14c.
Time warp first attested 1954; time capsule first recorded 1938, in reference to New York World’s Fair; time-traveling in the science fiction sense first recorded 1895 in H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine.”
It wasn’t until the twentieth century that the concept of time was fundamentally changed by Einstein’s formulation of relativity and space-time.
