Happy Friday Paul
Etymology I'd never have predicted: "tannoy" comes from "tantalum alloy."
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I think that’s what a bitcoin is made of.
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Millennial Alloy Names
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Are you curious about everything?
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Recent etymology fun findings: Vaccine -> "pertaining to cows, from cows" (preventing smallpox by injecting cowpox). Catamaran -> from kattu "tie, binding" + maram "wood, tree." of Hindi/Tamil
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A particularly nice example of such a melding of worlds is the word “meld” itself— formed by melding the words “melt” and “weld”.
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Stephen Fry may have some disagreements with you about the meaning of the word 'meld'...https://youtu.be/wBOCHPCYnDw
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for a second there I read tantrum alloy
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Love this, Paul. My recent fave was "pariah" From Tamil for "drummer" ... in caste-based society the ppl who made a living banging the drum to announce king's notices were lower strata. "Paraiah" and "Pariah"
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The term "tannoy" is used in older colloquial British English to mean any public-address system or even as a verb - to "tannoy", particularly those used for announcements in public places; although the word is a registered trademark, it has become a genericised trademark.
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