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Updated: October 4, 2026
The first people who used the word earn for other ways of getting payment than field-labour, and the word gain in a general sense, were really making metaphors. Some of our commonest words take us back to a time before our ancestors even settled down to cultivate the land, or perhaps even before the days when they had learned to tame and give pasturage to their flocks.