“IT’S IN THE EYE/I OF THE BEHOLDER”

“IT’S IN THE EYE/I OF THE BEHOLDER”


Eye or I. . .both pronounced the same but you are left to decide which is

what and what is which. According to the Webster’s New World Dictionary the

word eye means, the origin of sight in humans and animals: to look, observe

or glance.The etymology of eye - O.E. ege (Mercian), eage (W. Saxon), from P.Gmc. *augon, from PIE *oqw- "to see" (cf. Goth. augo, O.C.S. oko, L. oculus, Armenian aku). Until c.1375 the plural was in -an, hence modern dial. plural een, ene. The verb is first recorded 1566. The eye of a needle was in O.E.; to see eye to eye is from Isa. lii.8; eyewitness is from 1539; eyesor...