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  1. What's the french word for "Snot Rag wrapped around head for no logical reason"

  2. Great info, these derivations. Amurricans need to get beyond the surface of things.

  3. Makes me thankful to have a wood stove wherein I can throw one last big log on the fire before bed, pull the damper, close the door, and let it burn for a good half the night, which really helps keep the house warm in the winter. Having to fully extinguish the fire every night would make for absolutely freezing mornings of getting a new fire going in a cold stove.
    Also automatic space heaters and centralized heat and AC are total witchcraft compared to what our ancestors had to deal with.

  4. King James father was French. His mother was Scottish and his wife, Anne was the Queen of Germany. Together they created modern English, wrote KJV and Shakespeare.

  5. So that’s why they say Kamala’s performance as border czar has been a fiasco

  6. If Cody Tucker taught history when I was in school I would have paid more attention in class. This is incredible

  7. I like learning the origins of words and linguistics history. Thank you for making what’s old new again and reminding us that preserving history is IMPORTANT!

  8. Just the other day I learned that, because of the fire concern, they had Banal (communal) ovens that did everyone's baking.

  9. My dad used to say I was a complete failure all the time. He called me “Fasco” but I didn’t know he meant “Fiasco” until now.

    If I knew he spelled it wrong, I would’ve made fun of him all them years instead.

  10. Imagine if Enlish didn't borrow from other languages.
    "The situation is a complete F̶i̶a̶s̶c̶o̶ messed up bottle."

  11. Sorry. While that is the origin of curfew the earliest recorded instance dates to London in the 11th century, to the first post-Norman era fire there.

  12. I was just wondering to myself what couvrir and feu would have sounded like in 15th century France, but then my brain finally started working and i realized it would depend on where.

  13. Oh man…with this much knowledge I'm hustling everyone at trivia at T.G.I. Fridays!

    Then I'm going to challenge every history teacher I ever had!

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