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Etymologically being humiliated is the human condition. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. I heard two people this week say that something that had happened to them was humiliating. What they

Herersquo;s a little etymological quiz for the word arrive. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. With respect to the word arrive which of the following statements is the most etymologically app

Slalom, another word in honor of the Olympics. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. The word slalom appeared for the first time in English in 1921 in the British Ski Year Book. This points us t

It took a long time for mathematicians to come to agreement that zero was in fact a number. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. To a small extent the confusion still exists. I heard a comedian

According to one James Agate ldquo;a professional is a man who can do his job when he doesnrsquo;t feel like it. An amateur is a man who canrsquo;t do his job when he does feel like it.rdquo; SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo

Today we compare cynics and capitalist dogs. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. The Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary contains the following contemporary definition for a cynic: one who

In 1968 the Beatles released a double LP simply called The Beatles. I was ten at the time so I didnrsquo;t notice. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. The packaging on that Beatles record was

Etymologically people really do chat online. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. With social media developing on the internet more and more people are typing messages back and forth to each ot

You put your eye to a telescope and you put your eye to a microscope but you put your ear to a stethoscope. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. In 1816 a doctor by the name of Reneacute; Laenn