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the position everyone remembers and the title nobody hands you twice
means Coming before all others in order, time, rank, or importance — the one at the very front.
from From Old English 'fyrst,' meaning foremost or earliest, which is itself a superlative of 'fore' — the same 'fore' you hear in 'before,' 'forward,' and 'foremost.' It traces back through the Germanic family (German has 'Fürst,' meaning prince, literally 'the foremost one') to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'in front of' or 'before.' So 'first' is really 'fore-est' — the most-in-front there is, a word that has meant 'ahead of everyone' for as long as English has been spoken.
- olympic origin
- first ancient games winner was a cook named Coroebus
- mover advantage
- first movers capture markets but often die testing them
- word frequency
- among the most common adjectives in English
- firstborn edge
- firstborns score slightly higher on IQ tests
first crusade — 1096-1099, pope urban ii called for christian conquest of jerusalem
first world war — 1914-1918, global conflict that killed ~17 million people
first super bowl — january 15, 1967, green bay packers defeated kansas city chiefs