# Travel **Published by:** [Travel Toons](https://paragraph.com/@travel-toons/) **Published on:** 2023-03-12 **URL:** https://paragraph.com/@travel-toons/travel ## Content Travel HistoryDo you know the origin of Travel ? Middle English (Northern and Scots), originally the same word as travil (by semantic change from “to toil, labor,” then “to make a laborious journey,” then “to journey,” a change that did not occur in French and other Romance languages). The spelling travel is due to a shift in accent in the 14th century; verb senses were first recorded in 1250–1300; noun senses were first recorded in 1400–50.Live it or Leave itSubscribe ## Publication Information - [Travel Toons](https://paragraph.com/@travel-toons/): Publication homepage - [All Posts](https://paragraph.com/@travel-toons/): More posts from this publication - [RSS Feed](https://api.paragraph.com/blogs/rss/@travel-toons): Subscribe to updates