Was Nikersquo;s slogan anticipated 600 years ago? SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Nike made the three words ldquo;just do itrdquo; famous. Itrsquo;s almost a philosophy of life wrapped up

Being in a trance is better than it used to be. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. I looked up trance at wordnik and I see they list 19 definitions. Herersquo;s the first one pulled from Th

The panting my dog does is because she is hot and since she doesnrsquo;t have sweat glands she has to move air over her tongue to cool off. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. When I pant itr

Irsquo;m not exactly certain why the science show Nova chose its name. All it means is ldquo;new.rdquo; SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. I mean therersquo;s a Canadian province called Nova

The babies and babes Irsquo;ll be talking about here are the ones brought by storks, not those picked up in bars. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. The word baby appears first in Middle Eng

There's an etymological reason why calculations with an abacus can leave paper and pencil in the dust. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Before the invention of pocket calculators most peop

Paint arose in Middle English from French, or as the latest update to The Oxford English Dictionary puts it from Anglo-Norman, a refinement in definition of the language that was being spoken by the descendants of the Norman Invaders from 1066. SPONSOR: G

Hors drsquo;oeuvre is a tough one to spell because not only has this double barreled word retained its original French spelling, we in English have changed itrsquo;s pronunciation a bit to suit what feels most comfortable on our tongues. SPONSOR: GotoMeet

A pawn is the lowliest payer on the chess board. But why are they called pawns? SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Today Irsquo;m going to talk about four words pawn. In some ways they all h

Irsquo;m sure yoursquo;ve met people who save past copies of magazines likeNational Geographic in some kind of personal warehouse. People who collect like this are behaving in an etymologically appropriate way at least. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your mee