While visiting my daughter in New Orleans I noticed an old store window advertising "notions." Yet the word notion from the Latin notionem means concept or idea. What are notions?
Re: notion
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 1:27 pm
by Perry Lassiter
OEtymD: notions (n.)
"miscellaneous articles," 1805, American English, from notion with the idea of "clever invention."