A person viewed from above, sat in an armchair with a laptop on their knee - all framed by the aged face of a clock. Photo: By Kevin Ku on Unsplash.
Bide your time: Damian Entwistle’s Thought for the Week
‘We stand at the fulcrum of events.’
Our word for time comes from the Latin, tempus, but we retain echoes of an older Greek word, kronos, which we bring out for particular purposes; we see it ‘chronometer’, and ‘chronology’.