A WORD A DAY.
' MAGNETISM. » This word is used to designate the apparent manifestation of an attracting force which corresponds to that seen in a magnet. Our word goes back to the Latin magneta, accusative of magne*, for magnes lapis, “magnesian stone, or lodestone.” Back of this was the Greek (lithos Magnetes), the name given the magnetic stone found in Magnesia. Whatever seems to attract us toward the earthly, the material, may be described as magnetism. The first syllable of mag-net-ism is accented (note that the second syllable is not “nee”); sound ar as in am, e as in get, i as in it, S as z. “Magnetism becomes repulsion when similar ends of magnets are placed together."
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Southland Times, Issue 21090, 23 May 1930, Page 8
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118A WORD A DAY. Southland Times, Issue 21090, 23 May 1930, Page 8
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