Fake Etymology @FakeEtymology
Putting the Amor in Amortization since 1066. Joined March 2012-
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O Vos Omnes (Lat. "Hey You Guys") is a well-known piece from the soundtrack to the classic 80s film The Goonies.
MILF stands for Marschak Index Less Food, a core price index published by the Soviet Union until its dissolution.
To 'mog' comes from the German 'Macht', or Power, and is related to 'Might' in English.
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Iliad translation into Zoomer where θυμός is translated as Cortisol
Naming the twins Eugene and Dysgene to establish early on which one is the evil one
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it's common for russian politicians to name themselves after materials. the best known example is stalin (man of steel), but there's also lenin (man of linen), putin (man of pewter), yeltsin (man of jelly), etc.
Windows ХР (In Cyrillic XP is pronounced "Hurrrrr")
Wow, so clouds in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia really do look like that! Chinggis Khan and his 19 followers took refugee here in 1203 after their defeat by Ong Khan 王汗 Toghrul of Keraites. He would set out frm here to defeat Ong Khan and unite Mongolia
Common misconception. The name 'Minneapolis' actually comes from its local specialty, a tiny serving of ice cream
@VesselOfSpirit @voooooogel it doesn't mean "tiny new city" does it, that would be too silly
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Tines New Roman.
Tornado is morphologically redundant. Torn is already a past participle, then you add -ado to make it a past participle in Spanish too
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The Anglish word for "Papism" is "Daddydom"
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Does the etymology of "yeet" bottom out in PIE "*(H)yeh₁-"
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I hate RFK and the MAHA freaks. These people would ban Coke Zero if they ever got the chance.
Santa Fe is Spanish for Holy Iron.
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