497: Exit and Exeunt Apr 18, 2016

It is difficult to go to the cinema without hearing an announcement to check for the exits. This is not only safe, but lexically fitting. 'Exit', as well as 'exeunt' (such as Shakespeare's famous direction, "exeunt pursued by a bear" from A Winter's Tale) were first used as stage directions in the mid 16th century from Latin literally meaning ‘he or she goes out,’ in the third or. Through the 17th century, this word was adopted into every-day usage.