Word Origins

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    Cute

    Now I know I'm getting old. It took a second look and a minute for this to come through.
     
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    While this historical piece recounts the origins of music, it gives great insight into how words themselves, were first formed...

    From the great historian of ancient man, Melvin Brooks...

     
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    I had forgotten all this and looked it up again.

    Sunday and Monday are named after the celestrial bodies, Sun and Moon, but the other days are named after Norse gods; Tyrs's day, (W)odin's day, Thor's day and Frigg's day.

    Saturday does not follow the same pattern, and the name actually means 'hot water day', which can be translated as 'washing day' or 'bathing day'.

    The English 'Saturday' originates from the Roman god Saturn, and can be recognized from Latin, where the day is called 'Dies Saturni'.

    I guess it used to be the custom or practice to bathe only once a week. The lowest classes probably didn't even reach this plateau. No wonder that the common crowd at Shakespeare's plays were called 'stinkards'.
     
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    Aren't weddings held in June because May was Bath Month?
     
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    Originally posted by @Yvonne Smith

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    This is also where "Boston [pork] butt" comes from. In New England, less desirable cuts of the pig--like the shoulder--were put into barrels [butts] and shipped elsewhere for sale.
     
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    So .... if an Imperial gallon is about 8.33 lbs. a butt weighs around 897 and 2/3 lbs.

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    That's a big-ass butt.
     
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    Southern cookin' will do that...bless your heart.
     
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