)_ It
signifies _two_ units _joined, united, aned,_ or _oned. Twenty
(twa-ane-ten)_ signifies _two tens aned, oned_, or _united_. Things
_separated_ into parcels of twenty each, are called _scores. Score_
is the past participle of _shear_, to _separate_.
_The Ordinals_ are formed like abstract nouns in _eth. Fifth,
sixth_, or _tenth_ is the number which _fiv-eth, six-eth, ten-eth_,
or mak-_eth_ up the number _five, six_, or _ten_.
Philosophical writers who limit our acceptation of words to that in
which they were _originally_ employed, and suppose that all the
complicated, yet often definable, associations which the gradual
progress of language and intellect has connected with words, are to
be reduced to _the standard of our forefathers_; appear not to have
sufficiently attended to the _changes_ which this principle of
association actually produces. As language is transmitted from
generation to generation, many words become the representatives of
ideas with which they were not originally associated; and thus they
undergo a change, not only in the _mode_ of their application, but
also in their meaning.
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