Why are words those words?

Fore!!!

Published on June 23, 2004 By blondelife In Blogging

I have a question for everyone that reads this article. Why is it when you play golf you say fore. When i first started i thought that is was like the number four. Actually is was fore. We went golfing and i asked why and noone could answer it for me really they said that is just the way it is. Why can't it be three or two or one or cheese or something. People would still look if that is what they started with. I looked fore up in a dictionary and it says under sports that it is used to warn people ahead that their is a ball coming toward you and to watch out. It isn't those exact words but it is pretty close.

Then again why is any word that word. Haven't you ever wondered that. I always do why is a computer called that and why do people speak differant languages and who came up with them. I guess we will never know only one person will know. But if you ever figure it out please let me know as soon as you can. Cause that is one thing that i hate about life. You only know so much and with one question i am out. What came first the chicken or the egg?

~blondelife~

Comments

carebear07

on Jun 23, 2004

Ha! Cheese! lol. No they should say............LLAMA!!! hehe.

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~carebear~

Zoologist03

on Jun 23, 2004

Not sure about "fore"...could be something from Latin or Greek....I'm not sure. Words came up as a way to vocally describe something...they just had to pic one and then everyone went with it....As for different languages...well, that depends on where people live...languages are all usually Latin-based...and when the people moved they changed and so did their languages....

The chicken came first by the way....probably....(Evolution from reptiles started this...the chicken had to come before the egg or otherwise what could lay a chicken egg?)

I'm out,
~Zoo

blondelife

on Jun 23, 2004

Zoologist yeah maybe about the word fore but who knows. And why is their Latin and Greek why can't their just be one. And you need to have an egg though to have a chicken and you need a chicken to have the egg. But if i had to pick one i would go with you. Also carebear llama sounds good to me we should golf and hit the ball and yell it. lol.

~blondelife~

Erofee

on Jun 23, 2004

LLAMA!!

Sorry, just had to do it...

blondelife

on Jun 23, 2004

nice picture it doesn't look anything like me when i golf. It does remind me of someone though and i am not going to say any names.

~blondelife~

InfoGeek

on Jun 23, 2004

FYI:

"Fore" is another word for "ahead" (think of a ship's fore and aft). Yelling "fore" is simply a shorter way to yell "watch out ahead" (or "watch out before"). It allows golfers to be forewarned, in other words.
The British Golf Museum cites an 1881 reference to "fore" in a golf book, establishing that the term was already in use at that early date (the USGA suggests the term may have been in use as early as the 1700s). The museum also surmises that the term evolved from "forecaddie."

A forecaddie is a person who accompanies a group around the golf course going forward to be in a position to pinpoint the locations of the groups' shots. If a member of the group hit an errant shot, the thinking goes, they may have alerted the forecaddie by yelling out the term.

A popular theory is that the term has a military origin. In warfare of the 17th and 18th century (a time period when golf was really taking hold in Britain), infantry advanced in formation while artillery batteries fired from behind, over their heads. An artilleryman about to fire would yell "beware before," alerting nearby infantrymen to drop to the ground to avoid the shells screaming overhead.

So when golfers misfired and send their missiles - golf balls - screaming off target, "beware before" became shortened to "fore."

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Amandahillbilly07

on Jun 25, 2004

that is awesome! I loved that picture i could see some one saying that! Hey blondelife what if people said CHOMPER! Sorry little inside joke!

Love Lots
Amandahillbilly

P.S. why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway??

blondelife

on Jun 25, 2004

Amandahillbilly i agree with you we should all say chomper from now on. We will go golfing and that is what we will yell. Also i don't have an answer for your P.S. but that is a very good question maybe someone else does.

~blondelife~

blondelife

on Jun 25, 2004

carebear07

on Jun 27, 2004

NO!!!!!!!!!! Llama is far much better, even though i get the joke.

~carebear~

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