Something Interesting

I think that is an interesting article I read in a book from Isaac Asimov "Words of Science and the History behind them": The first line was a textile cord, rather than a mark on paper. Line comes from the Latin "linea" which probably comes from the old name of "flax" (hence, our word linen for what may be man's oldest textile). Since the word straight line is but another version of "stretch" the phrase straight line is related, in derivation and sound, to "stretched linen", and it was a stretched linen cord that civilized man may have first used as a straight line in making land measurements. See you at the meeting on Monday, Cheers, Gudrun.