The word storm is a very old word that predates English itself according to The Oxford English Dictionary. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days It shows up in almost identical form in many German

Imagine its summer time. Itrsquo;s warm, you are dressed for the weathermdash;meaning you are uncovered in a lot of placesmdash;and you are in ancient Greece. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 day

I have a few clocks in my house; the old wind-up kind. But I havenrsquo;t wound them since I began podcasting. They made too much noise. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days It wasnrsquo;t just t

If you look back at the different spellings of kerfuffle over the years it makes for a bit of a kerfuffle itself. But it does tell a tale. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days To start with Irsqu

Once upon a time my mother was knitting a style of sweater that had many open holes in the weave. My father looked at it and said ldquo;no wonder itrsquo;s going so fast, itrsquo;s mostly air.rdquo; SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just

Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie died in 1972. He once wrote ldquo;Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.rdquo; How true. But canrsquo;t the same be said of m

In his play Measure for Measure Shakespeare makes mention of a garden surrounded by a brick wall. By his time the word brick had been part of the English language for almost 200 years. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try Go

To me the word harlot seems like something my grandmother might have called one or two of the girls I spent a little time with during my university years. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days You

Glass is an example of a word that has shattered into lots of meanings we currently recognize but also with many earlier and forgotten etymological branches. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days

George W. Bush was the predecessor to Barack Obama as President of the United States. That word predecessor sounds like pre-deceased. Does that mean that once upon a time someone had to die before the new guy got the job? SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your