A remarkable number of English words have Latin origins, and many Latin phrases are still used untranslated by English stylists. Here are a selection of 45 Latin phrases you could use in your blogs to add a little classicist feel and erudition to your endeavours. From John o’London.
Once a religious custom is established, it can continue for a long period with no one remembering what it meant or was meant to do. It is traditional, and that is it. In one Protestant church in northern Europe, the congregation filing through the church always bowed to a spot on the wall. No one knew why, but they all continued the tradition. The church was getting shabby, so the pastor and his churchwardens decided on a revamp. Preparing the walls for redecorating, crumbling plaster was removed, and revealed beneath the spot on the wall everyone bowed to, a mural of the Virgin Mary! Protestants had been bowing to the invisible virgin for over 300 years.
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