The Etymologicon
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- Orijinal yayın
- 2011
- Yayınlanma yılı
- 2011
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- Eugene Kostarevalıntı yaptı17 gün önce
Argon, the other major gas in air, wasn’t known about at the time, because it’s an inert gas and doesn’t produce anything at all. That’s why it’s called argon. Argon is Greek for lazy. - Eugene Kostarevalıntı yaptı17 gün önceBeing a scientist, he of course dressed this up in Greek, and the Greek for water producer is hydro-gen. The bit of air that made things acidic he decided to call the acid-maker or oxy-gen, and the one that produced nitre then got called nitro-gen.
- Eugene Kostarevalıntı yaptı17 gün önceAnd then he grew bigger than any of us, because, since the phrase was invented in 1941, we have all become part of the gene pool, which, etymologically, means that we are all little bits of chicken.
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