wordfully:Grammar comes from Old French grammaire ’learning’, from Latin&
wordfully:Grammar comes from Old French grammaire ’learning’, from Latin grammatica and Greek grammatike tekhne ’art of letters’.The Old English word for grammar was stæfcræft, from stæf ’walking stick’ (I know, I know), which in plural was used for ‘letters of alphabet’. Cræft means ‘power’ or ‘skill’; in this sense: ‘mental power’. So, in Old English grammar is the mental power of letters (words).Which is pretty awesome. -- source link
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