Nice Most people, who speak English, in the world today have a similar understanding of the word nice. We would use it in the sense that something is pleasing, polite, agreeable, or respectable. Someone’s mother might state that “he’s a nice boy” or “she’s a nice girl”. For most this would be considered a compliment, unless, of course, your mother is trying to act as a matchmaker. Nice is a word that …showed first 75 words of 700 total…

…showed last 75 words of 700 total…the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre, It were not good”. In this quote it is noticable that the spelling of the word is the same as it is as the English in use today. All but four of the seventeen definitions of this word are obsolete. Its progress or evolution is erratic, which is one of the reasons that it is so hard to track. At first it can be speculated that ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**