278: schedule Sep 12, 2015

The 'sch' in 'schedule might look Yiddish or German, but it is not either. This word comes from late Middle English but in the sense ‘scroll, explanatory note, or appendix’, a sense that only is used in legal documents today. This word originates from the Old French 'cedule', ultimately from late Latin 'schedula' which meant, ‘slip of paper’. The Latin word was diminutive of 'scheda', from the Greek word 'skhedē', which means ‘papyrus leaf’. Because the word has changed in meaning over time, this word only was commonly used outside of law and academia over the past hundred or so years.