Latin Illuminations: I shall be taking a different English word each week and attempting to cast new light on its meaning by looking at the Latin word or words from which it derives. I begin with the word ‘Altitude’.
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Instead of our phrase ‘to carry coals to Newcastle’, Latin has the altogether more delightful ad silvam ligna ferre, i.e. ‘to carry logs [or firewood] to the forest’.
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