I guess it's time for those damn flowers?
Here's a fun fact to start off my favorite month of the year: The cry "mayday," meaning "I am an aviator or sailor and I could really use some help about now," originates from the French term "m'aidez," meaning "help moi!" (Source: MAXIM, June 2003, the Shania Twain issue.)
Yet another example proving what one of my English professors always said: "English is a whore."
Here's a fun fact to start off my favorite month of the year: The cry "mayday," meaning "I am an aviator or sailor and I could really use some help about now," originates from the French term "m'aidez," meaning "help moi!" (Source: MAXIM, June 2003, the Shania Twain issue.)
Yet another example proving what one of my English professors always said: "English is a whore."
6 comments:
I knew that too. Except I didn't learn it from Maxim. I learned it from the BBC show Red Dwarf. (the "stranded on a deserted planet forced to eat dog food episode.)
Well, I suppose they're both softcore porn in their own ways.
Yeah...BBC IS pretty raunchy.
Jeez, it took them this long to figure it out? Three-quarters of the words in the standard English vocabulary (not including grammatical particles and cuss words) derives from Latin (either directly or through one of the Romance languages) or Greek. I was teaching that factoid to my students 15 years ago.
Hey now! I knew that five years ago!!
Not the Shania Twain issue!!!!!! Nooooooooooo
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