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Fake Etymology
'Nickelodeon' Is Latin for 'I Don't Care About God'?
Written by:
Aleksandra Wrona
March 29, 2024
"Using Google Translate" and "seeing for yourself" only works in cases like this if you also hav ...
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21 Word Origins the Internet Got Completely Wrong
Written by:
Shannon Sanford
Jan. 24, 2024
As it turns out, people have a propensity to make false claims about word origins.
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Word Origins the Internet Got Completely Wrong
Written by:
Shannon Sanford
Jan. 16, 2024
Word origins (etymology) is every bit the serious academic discipline you might expect it to be ...
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Was the Word 'Hangover' Derived from Drunken Sailors Sleeping on Ropes?
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Dec. 23, 2022
The word has been in circulation since 1894.
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Etymology of 'Holy Smoke'
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Snopes Staff
Barbara Mikkelson
April 19, 2005
Does the exclamation "holy smoke" derive from the burning of the ballots used to elect a Pope?
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Etymology of the F-Word?
Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
David Mikkelson
July 12, 1999
Did the word "fuck" originate as an acronym of the phrase "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"?
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