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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word Origins 80. The word origin today is
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dunce. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If someone says that another person
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is a dunce, he or she is saying that someone is a stupid person or someone
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who has a real difficulty learning. Okay. Let's continue. The origin of this word
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comes from a real person, John Duns Scotus. Okay. He was a Scottish Franciscan
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philosopher and theologian. At one time he was a greatly respected academic and
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even received honors from the church. You know, way, way back a long time ago before
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the Renaissance. However, when the Renaissance arrived, many of his ideas,
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theories, and methods were criticized and discredited. His followers strongly held
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on to you know, his beliefs. Many Renaissance scholars started to refer to
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these followers as Duns. Because you know done of course was in his name. His name
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was John Duns Scotus. So they started to call him Duns in a derogatory way. You
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know, in a way that's you know, criticizing them or making fun of them
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in a derogatory way. They considered them to be stupid , slow to learn and change
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their minds. So that's really where it comes from. That's why ... that's where the
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word dunce actually comes from. Okay. The dunce cap... Now when we see dunce, I
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remember years ago. I don't, I don't think this is done anymore and I don't really
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remember it being done in school or was it done in first grade ? I'm not sure but I
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remember when I was a kid, sometimes you'd see old shows or movies where they
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did actually if they if there was a student in the class that was not very
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smart or as a way of a punishment, maybe they sit him in a corner. And they
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put this little cone-shaped hat on them, and sometimes it actually said the word
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dunce on it as kind of a punishment. Today, this would this ... would probably
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almost be considered child abuse. I think so.
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This is not really done anymore, but it was done at one time. So there was such a
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thing as a dunce cap and the dunce cap the idea for the dunce cap, actually came
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from John Duns Scotus, So let's continue here. The dunce cap
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came about as an idea from John Duns Scotus who believed that the cone
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shape ... so it was cone shaped like a cone. A cone shape cap in a metaphysical way,
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could collect knowledge and wisdom to the tip. The tip you know, at the top of
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the cap and spread it and spread the knowledge into the brain below. All right.
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So that's where the idea from the dunce cap actually came from. All right and of
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course we just got one example here for dunce. Don't be such a dunce.
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There is no way that it could possibly be true. So this is the way we may use it
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today. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope you find it interesting and informative.
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Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.