A heart shape from an extinct plant, a marriage of convenience named for a livestock market, a spider hiding inside an old English word: each started somewhere nobody would guess.
The word for a cutting remark is also the chemical that bites into the plate
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On exam day in Korea, air-traffic control holds every takeoff for the listening section
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Government by idiots — a word that predates the film by 39 years
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One Latin root away from decadent, and both words met in the same will
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Luck luck — English decided one word for good fortune wasn't enough
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A garden given over to roses — and the reason prayer beads are named after them
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An archaic English name for cucumbers, still used in some 18th-century texts
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A 1733 Hogarth series became a phrase for decline by folly
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A 1703 phrase for marriage of convenience, from a London livestock market
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Where the word 'philosopher' actually came from
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The plant that gave us ❤ — and is being un-extincted
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To begin an undertaking is, etymologically, to birdwatch first
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The Old English word for spider, still the best insult for a gossip
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To fish out — the verb for finding something by patient investigation
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