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In English, Latin loan-words carry overtones of intellectual,
moral and aesthetic superiority that are not
borne by their Anglo-Saxon equivalents:
‘maternal’ for ‘motherly’ for example or ‘intoxicated’ for ‘drunk’ etc.
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Unfortunately, our word for ego, ‘personality’, is derived from the Latin,
and thus carries with it a high degree of respectability.
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Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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