Thursday, February 13, 2014

40 Weird Word Origins



John Green tells us the history of some words you never wondered about in the latest mental_floss video. We now know what he was thinking when he named the animal “lemurs,” but we still don’t know what the word has to do with what he said. But there you go. What? You have to make a death pledge to buy a house? Some of these forty stories are pretty strange!


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