Unexamined Words
Lingua Franca 2014-01-14
Summary:
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Consider the following words. What do they have in common?
once
baseball
cupcake
They all have transparent etymologies. That is, once clearly comes from one. Baseball is a game involving balls and bases. And a cupcake is a cup-sized cake, or a cake made in or with a cup, something like that.
Here are some more:
storage
radiator
outdoors
It doesn’t take deep thinking to recognize that storage has to do with storing things; a radiator radiates; and outdoors has something ...