Sign. A four-letter word. But a good one. A sign can be so many things. Sign off. Stop sign. Sign on the dotted line. Sign language. Sign up and join. The zodiac. Hey man, like what’s your sign? If we were learning to speak English we might pronounce it “siggin.” Or “sigh-gn.” How we got to “sine” (rhymes with “fine line”) is a mystery to me. Seeing as how the word comes from the Latin signum. Maybe signum got silenced as it wandered through Old French. By the time it re ...