Etymology
BALD CHAUVINISTS
 When I think of the word chauvinism, I immediately associate it with sexism, although it can also refer to biased support for any group. Historically, it was linked to…
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PERTAINING TO FLOCKS
 When thinking of the word gregarious, we often associate it with outgoing individuals. However, its origins date back to…
ANOTHER ALIBI
 The term alibi was first recorded in Edward Grimestone's 1612 work General History of Spain, where it held the…
BALL-ERO
 Maurice Ravel's renowned orchestral composition Bolero (a personal favorite of mine) is inspired by a traditional Spanish dance style…
SLIDING DOOR
The term portcullis first appeared in the 1330 verse romance Arthur and Merlin, originally spelled as port colice, with the…
ATLAS AND THE ATLAS
 In Greek mythology, Atlas was the Titan tasked with holding up the heavens, and, today, an atlas is a…
Rhyme and reason in Shakespeare
Did “word” once rhyme with “afford” and “sword,” as it seems to do in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 79 and A Midsummer…
FRIENDLY CRONIES
 When the term crony (also spelled cronie, chrony, cronee, and croney originally) appeared in university slang during the years…
SURRENDERING TRADITION
 ​The term tradition was first introduced in the 1384 John Wycliffe Bible as tradicioun, meaning "the action of imparting…