ETYMOLOGY or the origin of words

Anyone know any interesting word origins?

The term "spam" for junk e-mail can be traced back to a sketch by Monty Python.

In the 80's visitors to bulletin boards would enter the word SPAM a huge number of times to scroll other users off the screen, a replica of the sketch in which the word SPAM was repeated ad nauseum.

Words do not describe reality, they are creating a reality.

Just thought to add that.

Damnit Milla, i thought this was gonna be a cool thread, I love word origins.. But oh no you had to ge get all rational & intellectual on us 😛

😂

Words do not describe reality, they are creating a reality.

They do both.

most of the words comes from Latin and Greek.

surprisingly, a lot of English words comes from French.

(note: the spellcheck corected all of the nations name to the Big case but the French)

The word "minger" is now included in the english dictionary

Hey little bitches love your picture under your name!Anyway alot of the names in the hp books have alot of meanings to it.Specially greek.JM

Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
Hey little bitches love your picture under your name!

LMAO! Before I finally figured out what she was talking about, I almost fell out of my chair.

Originally posted by botankus
LMAO! Before I finally figured out what she was talking about, I almost fell out of my chair.

I first laughed, then I shook my head in dismay 😆 ❌ 😐

When I saw who had the "last post" in this of all threads, I opened the thread with morbid curiosity, only to find a post beyond anything I could have ever imagined.

You can't make that stuff up.

Originally posted by botankus
LMAO! Before I finally figured out what she was talking about, I almost fell out of my chair.

On topic, I can't think of an interesting word to trace the origin of.

philoshopher= Lover of Sophia.

Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
Hey little bitches

LOL!!!!!!!! when i read those first 3 words, i thought JM finally broke character and was about to tell us all we've been had and that it was all a joke

Originally posted by PVS
...was about to tell us all we've been had and that it was all a joke

I still believe you are right about that.

Originally posted by botankus
I still believe you are right about that.

i think so too...but if i'm wrong, then i need to find her school principal, english teacher, and all members of her school board, and shoot them all in the back of the head for the good of mankind 😖

Originally posted by PVS
i think so too...but if i'm wrong, then i need to find her school principal, english teacher, and all members of her school board, and shoot them all in the back of the head for the good of mankind 😖

That's mean.

hey sorry, but disfunctional school systems in my own state really piss me off 😬

Still....it is unhealthy to reflect on another's failings.

...if those failings are acklowledged by those who fail, true.
if those who fail refuse to believe, not true imho.