Re:Where Did 'Jazz,' the Word, Come From? (2018)
by Retric on Thursday August 15, 2019 @04:29AM
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Tip is old enough (1755) that they where the same word.
The cynic would be mostly right, at least for much of the history of English, as for hundreds of years insure and ensure were simply spelling variants, and had no more difference between them than theatre and theater.
However, in the middle of the 19th century some began to find fault with this, and proposed assigning meanings to ensure, insure, and assure in more orderly fashion.
The cynic would be mostly right, at least for much of the history of English, as for hundreds of years insure and ensure were simply spelling variants, and had no more difference between them than theatre and theater.
However, in the middle of the 19th century some began to find fault with this, and proposed assigning meanings to ensure, insure, and assure in more orderly fashion.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/how-to-use-ins...
PS: Tip is unlikely to have started as an acronym in either case.