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This from a scene just now seen in I Love Lucy: Why do we call a certain bank-employee a teller? What does he or she tell? | ||
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According to the dictionaries, a secondary sense of "tell" is to "count or enumerate." Here is the etymology as cited in the OED: "Du. tellen to count, reckon, etc." The online OED cites this definition for "teller" as coming from 1480. | |||
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That's really odd, though, don't you think? We kept the job label without keeping the other meaning of the word "tell". Does that happen a lot? ******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama | |||
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