thanks you all for comments, in particular Detlev Fischer for:
So I checked back in my room with Hermann Paul Deutsches Wörterbuch and it
has, for "Stichwort" (my translation):
"last word of someone else that is the cue for an actor to start his role
/ part" (18th c.) This use may be derived from a still older meaning where
a "Stichwort" signifies the single word placed below the last paragraph of
a page that forestalls / anticipates the first word on the next page. It
also stands since the 19th c. for the significant term of a speech, the
lemma, an article, the keyword of a dictionary. Originally (15 c.)
"offending / violating term".
which I cut and pasted from reading, was removed as you can see below...
end snip (though interestingly this then disappeared from a forwarded message so we'll see what happens this time.
I think there might be a connection between stich and gather, in that as writing moved from scroll to codes, then to early printing, then to post nineteenth century printing, the use of the catch word made this sort of sense, and so stich and catch were translated. The catch of course remains in English if you weren't caught,
but in English or American, the key concept came on board, KWIC KWOC in google and pre-; post- coordinate indexing gives some nice links to the stories
so that stichwort became translated into keyword, and the catchwords connections were lost.
All this has something to do with the youing Nietzsche (who should have explained the tz and sche too) and the Theognisea, which is the sort of thing someone might ask about.
The lemma, subject bit is the thing I want to hang on to, so one may become a lemmalist and thus create a knew career, #lemmalist.
the antidote to bing string thing (I'm glad bing is still an UNspelled in the spellchecker).
John Lindsay
Reader in Information Systems Design
Kingston University,
Kingston Upon Thames,
London.
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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 12:11:44 +0000
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Discovered by accident, then two came along at once. Did anyone ever come across this during training, or professional practice?
John Lindsay
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Kingston Upon Thames,
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