Emptiness in the origin of ‘evanescence’
May 18, 2021
The word evanescence means “the quality of being fleeting or vanishing quickly; impermanence”. It is also a pretty ok band from Arkansas. But what’s really
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These are write-ups diving into interesting word families, like the “plat-” words with an underlying concept of “flat” (e.g. platypus, platitude, plateau, platform…)
Why flatulence, flavor and conflate all “blow”
May 16, 2021
The word flatulence refers to gas trapped in the digestive system, which is often smelly. It comes from Latin flatus “a snorting; a breaking wind”.
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May 14, 2021
The duck-billed platypus is unique for many reasons—being the only mammal with venom, having biofluorescence, etc. But it is also interesting because of its name.
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