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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word Origins 52. The word origin today is

  • loophole. Okay. Let's take a look at the note. Nowadays loophole is mostly used to

  • mean something in a contract or a law that is not completely clear or has been

  • left out and can sometimes be used as a way of avoiding or evading the law, the

  • rule or condition of like a contract or or of a law. It can also literally mean a

  • hole in a loop or the hole in a loop. So remember this little thing like this is

  • like a loop if you've ever gone to an amusement park. You've gone on a roller

  • coaster. Some really exciting rollercoasters may go around a loop. So

  • that's kind of what we mean by a loop. So kind of t ends up having an oval shape

  • where two things hang. Where two things go and then it connects over again. Like

  • almost like a lasso. That a cowboy uses. This kind of a loop. So what's in

  • the center of that is a loop hole. Okay. Let's get to the origin point now.

  • The origin of the word loophole goes back to medieval times. You know, the

  • Middle Ages. it refers to the narrow slit openings in the walls that archers

  • could shoot arrows through to fight off attackers to a castle. So if you ever

  • seen in the old movies like around Robin Hood's time. Robin Hood during that

  • period you know, somebody's trying to defend a castle. But you often seen these

  • little narrow openings there that, that the people shot arrows through to fight

  • off attackers. So those were actually referred to as loopholes. That's where

  • the word actually comes from. Okay. The loop part probably originated from the

  • German or middle Dutch word " Lupen "which meant to watch or peer. So even when they

  • weren't being attacked normally if the king was there and the queen or the

  • castle ... Sometimes everybody lived in that whole area. The whole

  • community it may be several hundred people. There might be somebody whose

  • job was to be a guard or a lookout. They would be looking

  • through those and of course . If actors came that would be a good place to shoot arrows

  • through. It was very hard for the attackers to fight back and get at like

  • another arrow or something in into that hole. Because that hole was a bit narrow.

  • And sometimes it was even a little bit on an angle too. So it was easy to shoot at the

  • attackers but it wasn't so easy for them to shoot back into the hole. So that's

  • why they worked very well. Which meant to watch for a period. Thus the word loophole

  • basically, it means that a guard or lookout could watch for attackers

  • because they're, they're looking through that. All right. It's good to note this too.

  • If all if all failed or if everything else failed, small children may have been

  • able to escape through loopholes too. And that might go back to the idea about a

  • contract. It's a way of escaping. It is that small little hole that you can escape

  • through the contract. There was something missing that you could just get out of

  • it from. So maybe that was the connection to eventually have the meaning about you

  • know, laws or contracts. You find a loophole in the law or you find a

  • loophole in the contract. So you can get around it . You can avoid it . You could

  • evade it in some way. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. I hope it was

  • informative. Thank you for your time. Bye- bye.

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