FAKE ETYMOLOGY (WORD MYTHS)
Urban legends, but less creepy, more wordy.
This week K will ruin your best bits of party trivia by explaining their less splashy origins.
We’ll learn that; picnics aren’t racist (but 1940’s linguists kind of were), you probably don’t understand morse code, and how a measurement of common sense became known as a euphemism for beating your wife.
Some phrases covered:
Don’t let the cat out of the bag
Ring around the rosie
500 words for snow
F.U.C.K./S.O.S.
Rule of thumb
Picnic
“I am a Jelly Donut”
Greenland Inuit words
(Open invite to anyone who can share proper pronunciations or other dialects)
sea ice = siku
pack ice = sikursuit
ice field = sikut iqimaniri
new ice = sikuliaq
thin ice = sikuaq
melting ice = sikurluk
BOOK REFERENCE:
Word Myths - Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends by David Wilton (2009)
A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages by Carl Darling Buck (1949-10-01)
Dictionary of Word Origins by John Ayto
Stupid Titanic game we mention :
Titanic :Adventure Out Of Timehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/785480/Titanic_Adventure_Out_Of_Time/
Music used is by R Stevie Moore
Watch his documentary Cool Daddio :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2s2lmNcX48
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