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Gulf of Mexico — Wordorigins.org
14 February 2025 The Gulf of Mexico is the body of water bordered by the United States to the north, Mexico to the west and south, and Cuba to the east. The English name is a calque of the Spanish …
OK / okay / A-OK — Wordorigins.org
22 June 2021 OK or Okay is the most successful of all Americanisms. It has invaded hundreds of other languages and been adopted by them as a word. It was even one of the first words spoken from the …
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inauguration — Wordorigins.org
15 January 2025 Our present-day English word inauguration comes from the Latin inauguratio . Augury was the practice of interpreting the behavior of birds as omens. Hence inauguratio connoted the …
salad / salad days — Wordorigins.org
7 October 2021 Salads actually take their name from the dressing, not the primary components. Salad comes from the Old French salade, whose root is from the Latin sal, or salt—the name is from the …
testify — Wordorigins.org
6 May 2022 [Updated 7 May 2022, adding PIE root.] Testify is a word with a straightforward etymology but one with a myth attached. The verb is a late fourteenth-century borrowing from the medieval …
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