East O the rockies they decided to blow a hole in my heart....

... to let in more light?

Word Origin & History

version

1582, "a translation," from M.Fr. version, from M.L. versionem (nom. versio ) "a turning," from pp. stem of L. vertere "to turn" (see versus). Also with a M.E. sense of "destruction;" the meaning "particular form of a description" is first attested 1788.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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